Showing papers in "Energy in 1983"

TL;DR: In this paper, a critique is made of the dominant emergency model, one of command and control, and an alternative is suggested, an emergent human resources model, based on the idea of the importance of the continuity of behavior, individually and organizationally.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the interrelationships between various concepts and show that total uncompensated price elasticities are the appropriate measure of customer response to time-of-use rates.

TL;DR: In this article, consumer purchasing patterns for a standard and an energy-efficient refrigerator are presented and a distribution of implied consumer discount rates is constructed Roughly 2 5 of the consumers behaved as if they had real discount rates above 60%, 1 5 between 35 and 60%, and 2 5 less than 35%

TL;DR: In this article, the feasibility of using sunlight to reduce the amount of electric power and/or fossil fuel needed to win metals from their ores and other compounds was examined, and in some detail, ZnO was examined as a candidate substance for exploratory experimental studies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared CO 2 emission rates in kgC/10 9 joules for a variety of conventional or synthetic fuel processes and found that the total CO 2 release per joule is on the order of 1.8 (± 0.2) times as much for burning liquid fuels from coal as for liquid fuel from crude oil, although the results are subject to changes in boundary conditions of resource availability, plant location, environmental requirements, output slate desired, economics, etc.

TL;DR: In this paper, an air heater in which the air first flows between metallic and cover plates and is then made to flow between two metallic plates in opposite direction is discussed theoretically, and the governing equations of the model are solved explicitly under suitable conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, a set of rate equations applicable to the hydrogen-oxygen system was integrated with a solar furnace to recover explosive mixtures of H 2 and O 2 from water which had been heated to about 2100K.

TL;DR: This paper explored the long-term global evolution of energy production and consumption, in conjunction with a program to investigate the global carbon dioxide issue, and presented energy findings which have grown out of that work.

TL;DR: Energy policy makers should examine in detail barriers to energy conservation of the types identified in this paper, and then develop appropriate policy mechanisms to overcome these barriers.

TL;DR: The improved metagame analysis algorithm is the type of conflict analysis method used for providing a framework to study systematically the Alaskan gas pipeline controversy and to put the historical information into proper perspective.

TL;DR: In this article, a battery is described, in which bipolar membranes are used to split water into acid and hydroxide, and energy may be recovered at room temperature, and the cost for energy storage is estimated to range from $0.1 to 2.5 per kWh depending on the mode of operation.

TL;DR: This paper examined the effects of economic, demographic, structural, and attitudinal variables on energy-saving activity disaggregated into behaviorally distinct types involving energy efficiency improvements or curtailments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a fomula to compute the maximum amount of work which can be extracted from a given combined mass of warm and cold ocean water (a quantity called the exergy of the ocean thermal resource).

TL;DR: In this paper, the exergies of the elements and compounds were computed using, as datum levels, the concentrations of elements or compounds in atmospheric air or of ions in sea water.

TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of a built-in storage water heater can be improved by using a baffle plate in the absorber tank, which can be found to be almost as good as that with cover and without the baffle plates.

TL;DR: The first geothermal electric power plant (3 MW e ) was installed in 1969 as mentioned in this paper, and several small-scale (two 1 MW e and one 6 MW e) geothermal power units have been installed in a cogeneration plant for district heating purposes.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of household energy consumption in the People's Republic of China focusing on fuel utilization for home cooking and heating and on electricity consumption by household appliances is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, a resource use ratio based on the number of people that can be provided with either food or energy using the resources in question is presented. But the approach presented provides a quantitative measure for assessing the issues arising when food resources are used for energy production.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a methodology for estimating heat losses for indoor swimming pools and energy savings associated with the adoption of selected energy-conservation strategies and devices in natatoriums.

TL;DR: The potential for methanol as a motor fuel, particularly when it is produced from natural gas, is examined in this article, and the process by which such a new fuel market would evolve is considered.

TL;DR: An analysis of a honeycomb-stabilized, saltless solar pond as a solar energy collector and long term (spanning seasons) storage system is presented in this article, where the solar pond is considered with a nonconvective zone made up of an oil layer and air honeycomb configuration.

TL;DR: A general lack of understanding by the public and the media has characterized the U.S. response to the oil-supply disruptions of the 1970s as discussed by the authors, which hampered the adjustment to the changed energy environment following the 1973-1974 embargo.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the impact of lighting management systems that dynamically control lights in accordance with the needs of occupants, including scheduling, tuning, lumen depreciation, and daylighting.

TL;DR: In this article, the energy balances in basin-type solar distillers derived by Lof et al. have been modified and the effect of atmospheric, design and operating conditions on Fc have been investigated experimentally and a correlation equation was derived.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the energy impact and cost effectiveness of heat exchanger utilization in tightened homes in the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) region, and concluded that, at relatively low residential electric rates in the BPA region, using heat exchangers in existing homes that are tightened is not economically viable.

TL;DR: In this paper, the rapidity and flexibility with which the Korean economy achieved three energy transitions (from wood to coal, from coal to oil, and from oil to a mix of imported fuels) accompanied by conservation measures which, between 1961 and 1979, reduced considerably the energy required for given levels of a growing and deepening industrial structure.

TL;DR: In this article, it is suggested that hydrogen sulfide recovered from the sweetening of fossil fuels or sought as a mineral for its intrinsic value might be converted, in an electrolytic process which uses atmospheric oxygen, into pipeline pressure hydrogen and sulfur.

TL;DR: In this article, the dependence of heat transfer coefficient on fluidization velocity, bed particle diameter, tube diameter and the nature of bed fluidization was analyzed in gas fluidized beds of two different sizes, viz., 305 × 305 mm 2 and 305 × 152.

TL;DR: For example, during the summer of 1980, the City of Davis, California, implemented a program to encourage residents to reduce peak electricity use as discussed by the authors, which carried a collective financial incentive: for every 1% reduction in peak electricity usage, the utility would reward the city up to a maximum of $100,000.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of a future oil price shock was measured in terms of the required stabilization policies, and the possibility of insuring against such price shocks by way of a gradually increasing oil tax was evaluated.