Lewis J Perelman - Energy Transitions: Long-Term Perspectives

Energy Transitions

Long-Term Perspectives

AAAS Selected Symposia Series

Long-Term Perspectives

Edited by Lewis J. Perelman , August W. Giebelhaus , and Michael D. Yokell

First published 1981 by Westview Press

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Energy transitions.
(AAAS selected symposium; 48)
Includes bibliographies.
1. Power resources. I. Perelman, Lewis J. II. Giebelhaus, August W. III.
Yokell, Michael D., 1946- IV. Series: American Association for the Advance
ment of Science. AAAS selected symposium; 48.
TJ163.2.E4937 333.79 80-21529

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-02206-8 (hbk)

This book is among the first to examine the social, political, economic, and environmental dimensions of major long-term changes in the systems of energy supply and use. Providing a uniquely holistic perspective on the dynamics of energy and societal changes, the authors examine historical examples of major energy transitions--from petroleum and natural gas to either renewable resources or nuclear fission (or fusion); analyze the potential impact of the coming transition; and assess the implications of long-term energy transitions for present government energy policies.

The AAAS Selected Symposia Series was begun in 1977 to provide a means for more permanently recording and more widely disseminating some of the valuable material which is discussed at the AAAS Annual National Meetings. The volumes in this Series are based on symposia held at the Meetings which address topics of current and continuing significance, both within and among the sciences, and in the areas in which science and technology impact on public policy. The Series format is designed to provide for rapid dissemination of information, so the papers are not typeset but are reproduced directly from the camera-copy submitted by the authors. The papers are organized and edited by the symposium arrangers who then become the editors of the various volumes. Most papers published in this Series are original contributions which have not been previously published, although in some cases additional papers from other sources have been added by an editor to provide a more comprehensive view of a particular topic. Symposia may be reports of new research or reviews of established work, particularly work of an interdisciplinary nature, since the AAAS Annual Meetings typically embrace the full range of the sciences and their societal implications.

WILLIAM D. CAREY
Executive Officer
American Association for
the Advancement of Science

Lewis J. Perelman is a senior scientist in the Social Sciences Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; his areas of specialization are solar energy, social impact assessment, program evaluation, and diffusion of innovations. A former program planner and policy analyst at the Solar Energy Research Institute, he has written extensively on resources, the environment, and social and behavioral change. He is the author of Solar Energy Program Evaluation (with D. Kline; Lexington, in press) and The Global Mind: Beyond the Limits to Growth (Mason Charter, 1976).

August W. Giebelhaus, an historian of economics, business, and technology, is an assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology . His primary area of research is energy history, and he is the author of Business and Government in the Oil Industry: A Case of Sun Oil, 1876-1945 (JAI Press, 1980) and general editor of Dictionary of the History of the Petroleum and Petrochemical Industries (Greenwood Press, forthcoming). Currently he is associate editor of Technology and Culture.

Michael D. Yokell, a specialist in energy and resource and environmental economics, is president and chief economist of Resource Management Consultants, Inc., in Boulder, Colorado. A former senior economist at the Solar Energy Research Institute and faculty member at the University of California-Berkeley and Washington State University, he is the author of several books, including Yellowcake: The International Uranium Cartel (with J. Taylor; Pergamon, 1979) and Environmental Benefits and Costs of Solar Energy (Lexington, forthcoming) .

Mark N. Christensen is a professor in the Energy and Resources Program at the University of California-Berkeley and codirector of the multidisciplinary, DOE-funded study, "Distributed Energy Systems in California's Future." His publications include numerous articles and several texts in the field of geology.

Gregory A. Daneke is associate professor and director of the Environmental and Energy Planning and Administration Program at the University of Arizona. He has been a visiting professor in the Center for Technology Administration at The American University, a visiting scholar with the Energy Information Exchange Program of the U.S. State Department, and a member of the National Energy Planning Review Team of the U.S. General Accounting Office. He has published extensively on policy analysis, natural resources management, and energy systems assessment; most recently, Policy Analysis and the Public Interest (Allyn and Bacon, 1980) and Public Administration and Energy Policy (with G. Lagassa; B.C. Heath, 1980).

Ethan B. Kapstein is energy education director for the Massachusetts Audubon Society and a partner in the energy consulting firm, Butti, Kapstein and Perlin (Washington, D.C Santa Monica, CA). As a visiting scholar with the Department of Energy, he conducted research on the history, politics, and economics of solar energy and founded and edited the Energy History Report. In 1977-1978 he was a Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation conducting research on solar energy in developing countries, and he currently holds a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Arnold Krammer is a professor of history at Texas A & M University. A specialist in German industrial and foreign relations, he is principal investigator of the "German Document Retrieval Project," a study of Nazi Germany's industrial records on synthetic fuel and coal conversion for possible application to current U.S. energy problems. He has numerous publications in his field, including Nazi Prisoners of War in America (Stein & Day, 1979).