Sustainable energy pricing: nature, sustainable engineering, and the science of energy pricing

The petroleum sector is possibly the largest and most dominant economic sector in the globalized economy. However, for reasons explored in this book, although none of the existing economic development models fit this sector in the past and apply even less today, no satisfactory alternative has presented itself. This book highlights the important reasons why current models fail to predict energy pricing with reasonable accuracy, and ventures into environmental and other problems with oil and gas production and associated economic decisionsmounting across both developed as well as developing economies. INDICE: Preface0. Introduction0.1 Requirements of a Sustainable Energy Pricing Model0.2 Outline of the contents of this volume1. Fundamental Notions1.0 The Energy Crunch1.1 Matter, Energy and Efficiency from the Scientific Standpoint1.2 Truth as a Scientific Frame of Reference1.3 Phenomenally-Based Sustainability: The Nature-Science Criterion1.4 Value Assessment, Value Addition and Phenomneally-Based Energy Pricing1.5 Newtonian’s Mechanism’ and Mystifying Now Value is Transformed into Price1.6 Risk Assessment and Management and Aphenomenal Energy Pricing1.7 The Temporal Criterion of Long-Term Sustainability and its Implications2. Deconstructing Scientific Disinformation and the Problem of Newtonian Mechanism2.0 Introduction2.1 Einstein’s relativity and Newton’s mechanism compared2.2 Newton’s First Assumption2.3 Fundamental Assumptions of Electromagnetic Theory2.4 The Engineering Approach and Its Significance2.5 First Conclusions2.6 Continuity & linearity3. Offshore Networks of Control: Providing Short-Term Multi-Entity International Oil and Gas Plays with a Guarantee4. Current Energy Pricing Models: Origins & Problems4.1 Consumption withoutProduction4.2 Imposed Energy Pricing4.3 Inherent Features of the Current Energy-Pricing Model: Matters Affecting Individuals’ Daily Existence4.4 Societal Implications of the Current Energy-Pricing Model for the Long Term4.5 Long-termvs short-term returns-on-investment [ROI] from energy exploration & development4.6 Resource “renewability” and ‘sustainable negative rent’5. The Role of Coal in the Modern Evolution of Energy Pricing5.0 Introduction5.1 Significance of Commodifying Labor-Time & All Material Production—Including Its Energy Source5.3 From “Law of Supply & Demand” (at the margin) To “ConsumptionWithout Production”6. Carbon Emission Credits - Theory & Practice6.0 Introduction7. “Peak Oil” and Some Other Fits of Pique Among Resource EconomistsAppendix. Disinformation in the Social & Historical Sciences: Concerning Time Functions and Sustainability of Resource Development

• ISBN: 978-1-118-31917-8
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 608
• Fecha Publicación: 21/02/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés