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The Reality of American Energy: The Hidden Costs of Electricity Policy

Autor Ryan M. Yonk, Jordan Lofthouse, Megan Hansen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 iul 2017 – vârsta până la 17 ani
This book dispels common myths about electricity and electricity policy and reveals how government policies manipulate energy markets, create hidden costs, and may inflict a net harm on the American people and the environment.Climate change, energy generation and use, and environmental degradation are among the most salient-and controversial-political issues today. Our country's energy future will be determined by the policymakers who enact laws that favor certain kinds of energy production while discouraging others as much as by the energy-production companies or the scientists working to reduce the environmental impact of all energy production. The Reality of American Energy: The Hidden Costs of Electricity provides rare insights into the politics and economics surrounding electricity in the United States. It identifies the economic, physical, and environmental implications of distorting energy markets to limit the use of fossil fuels while increasing renewable energy production and explains how these unseen effects of favoring renewable energy may be counterproductive to the economic interests of American citizens and to the protection of the environment.The first two chapters of the book introduce the subject of electricity policy in the United States and to enable readers to understand why policymakers do what they do. The remainder of the book examines the realities of the major electricity sources in the United States: coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydrodynamic, wind, biomass, solar, and geothermal. Each of these types of energy sources is analyzed in a dedicated chapter that explains how the electricity source works and identifies how politics and public policy shape the economic and environmental impacts associated with them.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781440853913
ISBN-10: 1440853916
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Presents information that should be considered essential reading for policymakers charged with making informed, responsible decisions about our country's energy future as well as for anyone wanting to better understand why "green energy" may not always be the best option

Notă biografică

Ryan M. Yonk, PhD, is assistant research professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at Utah State University and vice president and executive director of Strata Policy, a thinktank focused on finding voluntary solutions to modern public policy issues.Jordan Lofthouse, MSE, has published several op-eds in The Hill and The Salt Lake Tribune.Megan Hansen, MSE, is a policy analyst at Strata Policy. She has published op-eds in USA Today, Newsweek, and The Salt Lake Tribune.

Cuprins

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 Understanding ElectricityChapter 2 Regulating the Electricity SectorChapter 3 The Economics of ElectricityChapter 4 Wind PowerChapter 5 Solar PowerChapter 6 BiomassChapter 7 GeothermalChapter 8 HydropowerChapter 9 NuclearChapter 10 CoalChapter 11 Natural GasChapter 12 ConclusionNotesIndexAbout the Authors

Recenzii

Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.