The Renewable Energy Transition by John Erik Meyer
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The Renewable Energy Transition

The Renewable Energy Transition


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Energy, Resources, Population and Society - Why we need energy and why we need to develop energy policy

  • Energy basics EROI examples as they apply to Canada
  • Canada and the Americas
  • Canadian Pop 250,000 to 38 million = 150:1
  • Americas pop 80 million to 1 billion = 12:1
  • This indicates the difference energy and technology has made to the ability of humans to thrive on the more marginal lands (ie Canada).
Canada's Energy History from Seal Oil to EROI metrics and Transition Modelling
  • How high EROI energy and rich resources were critical to Canada's development
  • Canada's Current Energy Reality
The Transition to Renewables - Why do we need to do it?
  • Climate realities - what renewables will do and what they won't
  • Energy Realities
  • Two Trajectories over two different time frames
  • Climate mandate
  • Fossil fuel decline mandate
Renewable Energy Learning Curve
  • The successes
  • The failures
  • The marginal
  • The promising
  • Interviews with politicians associated with Green Energy initiatives (incl. Ontario)
  • Decision making - the difference between monetary based decisions and energy based decisions.
Renewable energy in a spectrum of countries - the impact
  • High resource per capita countries vs low per capita resource countries
  • Canada Compared to the world
  • Leading nations how did they do it?
  • Rule #1 - if you want to be rich, be born rich. Thomas Piketty
  • Comparison of National Reports on the Transition to Renewable Energy
  • How different countries handled their oil endowments.
  • The Metrics of Renewable Energy - Understanding what you are counting
  • Good answers start with good questions.
  • Renewable Energy impacts on the availability of other resources.
  • EROI the ultimate national metric
  • A core national metric
  • EROI - how reliable is it?
  • How variable is it for different scales of projects?
  • EROI - open questions
  • EROI - What it needs to improve
The Transition from the Ground Up
  • My House, Your House. Energy Templates.
  • My Community
  • On the ground decision making
  • Rich and high functioning with ownership
  • Poor and low functioning with no ownership
  • Solar and Wind Farms
  • Energy regions jurisdictions vs existing provincial boundaries
  • My Province
  • My Country
  • The public conversation
  • Instruments of mass disinformation - metrics designed to promote special interests
  • Resistance to change - Victims' rights based media coverage (people protest everything)
  • The amount of Renewable energy available
  • The Timing of Renewable Energy availability
  • Storage costs and critical applications
  • The Tax Base of Renewable Energy
  • The distribution (and jurisdictions) of renewable energy
  • Free market reactions vs strategic government planning. What does a workable balance look like?
Building a renewable energy network
  • Building with fossil fuels
  • Building with renewable energy
A New World for Public Policy - Energy Transition = Social Transformation
  • The development of oil based technologies has transformed the world and so too will the transition to renewable energy. More than just turning back the clock.
  • Your life
  • Agriculture
  • Industry
  • Travel
    About the Author: John Erik Meyer has been circling the issues of per capita resources, social equality and leadership since high school. A BA in Economics and years of working with physical units and dollar accounting and costing systems brought the different abilities of these measurement processes into sharp relief. He is a patent holder and has had a number of articles published in Canada's major newspapers dealing with a range of topics from population, immigration and the environment to the failings of GDP based metrics for social policy formation. He has also presented a paper on Energy Currency at a conference of that name in Split, Croatia. He maintains a site, which focuses on the concept of energy based currency. Mr. Meyer is currently President of the NGO "Canadians for a Sustainable Society" and owner and designer at a small medium tech manufacturing company. He also dabbles in solar electric and heating systems as well as electric bikes and has designed and built a house which he expects to be (eventually) energy positive. His primary interests are the changes necessary to achieve a sustainable society, population cycles, biophysical economics and the reasons for failed human social structures throughout history.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783030291174
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 386
  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Energy
  • Sub Title: Realities for Canada and the World
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 3030291170
  • Publisher Date: 19 Oct 2020
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 639 gr


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