Methanhydrate sind die im größten Umfang vorhandene Kohlenstoffressource und ihre im Vergleich zu Erdöl und Erdgas breite geographische Verteilung sowie ihr erhebliches Potential machen sie zu einem begehrten Rohstoff. Demgegenüber besteht die Gefahr einer Forcierung des Treibhauseffektes im...

Die weltweite Nachfrage nach Energie stellt die Energieversorgung mit Blick auf den Klimawandel vor zunehmende Herausforderungen. Die Erde selbst stellt in ihrem Inneren eine nahezu unerschöpfliche Energiequelle bereit. Auf Grundlage geophysikalischer Prozesse strahlt der Erdkern kontinuierlich...

This paper describes interfuel substitution for coal, oil, gas and electricity at a level of 12 activities. We use cross section data in each activity for appliance technologies (heating/cooling, steam generation, industrial processes, motors and lighting/computing) to estimate fuel input demand...

Energy conservation is widely accepted as an important strategy to combat climate change. It can, nevertheless, stimulate new energy uses that partly offset the original savings. This is known as rebound. One particular rebound mechanism is re-spending of money savings associated with energy...

We use survey data for 139,517 individuals in 26 European Countries, 2002-2011, to estimate the relationship between subjective well-being (SWB) and production shares of various types of electricity generation. The estimated relationships are taken to represent preference relationships over...

This paper applies an economic model of climate change that is based on endogenous substitution of energy resources to determine the effect of advances in renewable technology on aggregate and sectoral fossil fuel use and energy prices. It uses a Nordhaus type partial equilibrium model of the...

This article demonstrates that the large feed-in tariffs currently guaranteed for solar electricity in Germany constitute a subsidization regime that, if extended to 2020, threatens to reach a level comparable to that of German hard coal production, a notoriously outstanding example of misguided...