The Renewable Energy Transition: Realities for Canada and the World

By John Erik Meyer

Book Overview

Energy, Resources, Population and Society - Why we need energy and why we need to develop energy policyEnergy basics EROI examples as they apply to Canada
Canada and the Americas
Canadian Pop 250,000 to 38 million = 150:1
Americas pop 80 million to 1 billion = 12:1
This indicates the difference energy and technology has made to the ability of humans to thrive on the more marginal lands (ie Canada).
Canada's Energy History from Seal Oil to EROI metrics and Transition ModellingHow high EROI energy and rich resources were critical to Canada's development
Canada's Current Energy Reality
The Transition to Renewables - Why do we need to do it?
Climate realities - what renewables will do and what they won't
Energy Realities
Two Trajectories over two different time frames
Climate mandate
Fossil fuel decline mandate
Renewable Energy Learning Curve
The successes
The failures
The marginal
The promising
Interviews with politicians associated with Green Energy initiatives (incl. Ontario)
Decision making - the difference between monetary based decisions and energy based decisions.
Renewable energy in a spectrum of countries - the impact
High resource per capita countries vs low per capita resource countries
Canada Compared to the world
Leading nations how did they do it?
Rule #1 - if you want to be rich, be born rich. Thomas Piketty
Comparison of National Reports on the Transition to Renewable Energy
How different countries handled their oil endowments.
The Metrics of Renewable Energy - Understanding what you are counting
Good answers start with good questions.
Renewable Energy impacts on the availability of other resources.
EROI the ultimate national metric
A core national metric
EROI - how reliable is it?
How variable is it for different scales of projects?
EROI - open questions
EROI - What it needs to improve
The Transition from the Ground Up
My House, Your House. Energy Templates.
My Community
On the ground decision making
Rich and high functioning with ownership
Poor and low functioning with no ownership
Solar and Wind Farms
Energy regions jurisdictions vs existing provincial boundaries
My Province
My Country
The public conversation
Instruments of mass disinformation - metrics designed to promote special interests
Resistance to change - Victims' rights based media coverage (people protest everything)
The amount of Renewable energy available
The Timing of Renewable Energy availability
Storage costs and critical applications
The Tax Base of Renewable Energy
The distribution (and jurisdictions) of renewable energy
Free market reactions vs strategic government planning. What does a workable balance look like?
Building a renewable energy network
Building with fossil fuels
Building with renewable energy
A New World for Public Policy - Energy Transition = Social Transformation
The development of oil based technologies has transformed the world and so too will the transition to renewable energy. More than just turning back the clock.
Your life
Agriculture
Industry
Travel

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030291170
• ISBN13: 9783030291174
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"