Electricity and the environment: Building partnerships through technology
Abstract
The vision for electricity in the world today transcends its role as just an energy medium and focuses on its ability to furnish ever greater productivity of labor, capital and primary energy resources. Its efficiency and precision, through innovative technology, have become essential assets for resolving the interrelated economic, environmental and energy security issues facing the world. As a result, electricity has become a major differentiating factor in the global economy. For example, the fraction of all primary energy converted to electricity is typically used as a rough indication of regional prosperity. This index reflects the importance of electricity in both creating and harvesting technological innovation. Electricity`s advantages in focusing and amplifying physical power during the first century are being complemented in the second by its even greater advantages for focusing and amplifying the power of knowledge. As its importance grows, electricity will likely expand in the next half-century to provide over half the world`s energy demands while providing the means for the most effective conservation of natural resources. Collaborative R&D organizations such as EPRI are acting as new catalysts and partners to transfer technology on a world-wide basis. With respect to Central and Eastern Europe, this effort focuses onmore »
- Authors:
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- Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- North Dakota Univ., Grand Forks, ND (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 374582
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/MC/30097-5161-Pt.2; CONF-9410458-Pt.2
ON: DE96011553; TRN: 96:004422-0008
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 2. international conference on energy and environment: transitions in East Central Europe, Prague (Czech Republic), 31 Oct - 1 Nov 1994; Other Information: PBD: Dec 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Advanced power assessment for Czech lignite, Task 3.6, Part 2; Sondreal, E.A.; Mann, M.D.; Weber, G.W.; Young, B.C.; PB: 774 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS; 29 ENERGY PLANNING AND POLICY; FLUE GAS; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ELECTRICITY; FOSSIL-FUEL POWER PLANTS; POWER DEMAND; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
Citation Formats
Yeager, K E, and Torrens, I. Electricity and the environment: Building partnerships through technology. United States: N. p., 1995.
Web.
Yeager, K E, & Torrens, I. Electricity and the environment: Building partnerships through technology. United States.
Yeager, K E, and Torrens, I. 1995.
"Electricity and the environment: Building partnerships through technology". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/374582.
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title = {Electricity and the environment: Building partnerships through technology},
author = {Yeager, K E and Torrens, I},
abstractNote = {The vision for electricity in the world today transcends its role as just an energy medium and focuses on its ability to furnish ever greater productivity of labor, capital and primary energy resources. Its efficiency and precision, through innovative technology, have become essential assets for resolving the interrelated economic, environmental and energy security issues facing the world. As a result, electricity has become a major differentiating factor in the global economy. For example, the fraction of all primary energy converted to electricity is typically used as a rough indication of regional prosperity. This index reflects the importance of electricity in both creating and harvesting technological innovation. Electricity`s advantages in focusing and amplifying physical power during the first century are being complemented in the second by its even greater advantages for focusing and amplifying the power of knowledge. As its importance grows, electricity will likely expand in the next half-century to provide over half the world`s energy demands while providing the means for the most effective conservation of natural resources. Collaborative R&D organizations such as EPRI are acting as new catalysts and partners to transfer technology on a world-wide basis. With respect to Central and Eastern Europe, this effort focuses on new, more cost-effective innovations for the generation and delivery of electricity because obsolete and inefficient technology is contrary to our mutual interest in achieving efficient and sustainable economic development. EPRI stands ready to assist in this international endeavor.},
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