Conversations about Energy
How the Experts See America''s Energy Choices
Published on 1. September 2013
177 pages
978-0-8179-1306-9 (ISBN)
Description
Drawn from the Hoover Institution''s Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy January 2010 conference, this book discusses critical energy issues including, energy and synthetic biology, cap and trade and carbon tax policies, energy efficiency, international energy relationships, and other key topics. The contributors present a range of ideas and recommendations that might improve the performance of the United States in responding to the energy challenge.
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Jeremy Carl | James E. Goodby
Conversations about Energy
How the Experts See America's Energy Choices
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11/2010
Hoover Institution Press,U.S.
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Jeremy Carl is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy, whose work focuses on energy and environmental policy, with an emphasis on energy security, climate policy, and global fossil fuel markets. In addition, he writes extensively on US-India relations and Indian politics. James E. Goodby is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow with the Center for Northeast Asia Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. George P. Shultz is the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and has had a distinguished career in government, in academia, and in business.
Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction by George P. Shultz
- Sessions
- 1 - Distributed Energy
- 2 - What Can We Do To Boost Energy Efficiency?
- 3 - The Nuclear Fuel Cycle
- 4 - Synthetic Biology and Its Applications in Energy
- 5 - Putting a Price on Carbon
- 6 - A Sustained Research and Development Policy
- 7 - Emerging International Energy Relationships
- Appendix 1
- Working with China and India
- What Can America Do with China? by David Victor
- The U.S.-India Climate and Energy Relationship: Dealing with a Power-Starved Country by Jeremy Carl
- Appendix 2
- Members of the Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy
- Appendix 3
- Conference Agenda
- Conference Participants
