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Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2023 13:39
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Correction to: A review of the trends in Ghana’s power sector
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Editorial Expression of Concern: Brette Pearl Spar Mable (BPSM): a potential recoverable catalyst as a renewable source of biodiesel from Thevetia peruviana seed oil for the benefit of sustainable development in West Africa
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Correction to: Health concerns and use of biomass energy in households: voices of women from rural communities in Western Uganda
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Correction to: The incandescent light bulb phase-out: exploring patterns of framing the governance of discontinuing a socio-technical regime
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Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2021 11:21 -
Retraction Note: Sustainable development economy and the development of green economy in the European Union
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2024 14:20 -
Book review on The Geopolitics of Energy
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2013 3:1 -
Review of Tackling Long-Term Global Energy Problems: The Contribution of Social Science by Daniel Spreng, Thomas Flüeler, David L. Goldblatt and Jürg Minsch (Editors)
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Response to the comment “Are claims of cheap muon production correct?” by K. Hansen and J. Engelen, Energy Sustain. Soc., 2023
It is shown that muons are generated from decay of the mesons created by baryon annihilation reactions in ultra-dense hydrogen H(0), based on numerous previous publications and one patent. The cost of the muon...
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Olivine: a supergreen fuel
The hydration and carbonation of olivine, the most common mineral on Earth, produce a large amount of heat. Unfortunately, the reaction is too slow for normal technological applications, but when thermally wel...
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Editorial
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2011 1:1 -
Energy landscapes of today and tomorrow
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2020 10:43 -
Review of “Rise and fall of the carbon civilisation: resolving global environmental and resource problems” by Patrick Moriarty and Damon Honnery
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:17 -
Correction to: Effects of the German Renewable Energy Sources Act and environmental, social and economic factors on biogas plant adoption and agricultural land use change
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Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2021 11:11 -
Ballerini, D Biofuels: Meeting the Energy and Environmental Challenges of the Transportation Sector
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2013 3:13 -
Energy, Sustainability and Society is celebrating two years of successful open-access publication
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2013 3:21 -
Interdisciplinary research for the transformation of the energy system
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:4 -
Correction : Low carbon futures: assessing the status of decarbonisation efforts at universities within a 2050 perspective
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2023 13:9 -
Solid Biofuels for Energy
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:8 -
Correction to: Governing sustainability of bioenergy, biomaterial and bioproduct supply chains from forest and agricultural landscapes
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Erratum to: Renewable energy, energy efficiency, and eco-friendly environment (R-E5) in Nigeria
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Correction to: Balanced renewable energy scenarios: a method for making spatial decisions despite insufficient data, illustrated by a case study of the Vorderland-Feldkirch Region, Vorarlberg, Austria
In the publication of this article [1], there is an error in the Figures 4, 5 and 6 which are missing the map design and data source of the copyright owners.
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2018 8:10 -
Characterization by length heterogeneity (LH)-PCR of a hydrogen-producing community obtained in dark fermentation using coastal lake sediment as an inoculum
Sustainable biohydrogen production can be achieved by dark fermentation of organic wastes, and studies were carried out using a range of substrates and inocula. The bacterial populations involved were mainly i...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2013 3:3 -
The unintended consequences of greening America: an examination of how implementing green building policy may impact the dynamic between local, state, and federal regulatory systems and the possible exacerbation of class segregation
The aim of this paper is to analyze the unintended consequences of green government policies. This paper begins by providing a background on how the implementation of the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA)...
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Intercontinental cross-linking of power supply - calculating an optimal power line corridor from North Africa to Central Europe
An oversupply of solar radiation in Northern Africa as well as high energy consumption in the economic centers of Central Europe give reason to an international cross-linking of regenerative power supply. A fu...
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Semi-industrial production of methane from textile wastewaters
The enzymatic desizing of starch-sized cotton fabrics leads to wastewaters with an extremely high chemical oxygen demand due to its high sugar content. Nowadays, these liquors are still disposed without use, r...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:1 -
Technical reliability of shipboard technologies for the application of alternative fuels
Naval traffic is highly dependent on depleting fossil resources and causes significant greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, marine transportation is a major backbone of world trade. Thus, alternative fu...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2021 11:23 -
The production of renewable energy in the form of methane using electrolytic hydrogen generation
An extrapolation of the world energy consumption from 1990 to 2010 indicates a complete exhaustion of the world reserves of oil, natural gas, uranium, and coal by 2043, 2047, 2051, and 2055, respectively. For ...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2014 4:17 -
Governing sustainability of bioenergy, biomaterial and bioproduct supply chains from forest and agricultural landscapes
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2021 11:12 -
Muon-catalyzed fusion and annihilation energy generation will supersede non-sustainable T + D nuclear fusion
Large-scale fusion reactors using hydrogen isotopes as fuel are under development at several places in the world. These types of fusion reactors use tritium as fuel for the T + D reaction. However, tritium is ...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2022 12:14 -
Energy decisions within an applied ethics framework: an analysis of five recent controversies
Everywhere in the world, and in every period of human history, it has been common for energy decisions to be made in an ethically haphazard manner. With growing population pressure and increasing demand for en...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2020 10:29 -
Development of a pellet boiler with Stirling engine for m-CHP domestic application
A new sustainable technology has been designed by Fondazione Bruno Kessler through its unit Renewable Energies and Environmental Technologies. This technology is realized integrating in a single system (1) a S...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2011 1:5 -
Simulation of the downstream processing in the ethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass with ASPEN Plus® and IPSEpro
One of the most promising alternatives to gasoline as fuel in the transport industry is bioethanol, whether if it is conventional (based on raw materials containing sugar and starch) or produced from lignocell...
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Optimisation of the use of biomass for energy production (Optimierung der energetischen Biomassenutzung)-a funding programme introduces itself
In 2009 the German funding programme for "Promoting Projects to Optimise the Use of Biomass for Energy Production" ("Biomass for Energy") has started and fostered a wide range of projects to combine sustainabl...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2011 1:7 -
Onshore wind energy use in spatial planning—a proposal for resolving conflicts with a dynamic safety distance approach
The political agenda on wind power usage intends its further expansion in a large scale. As most energy sources, wind power can have negative impacts on humans and environment; this expansion can be accompanie...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2014 4:22 -
Utilization of renewably generated power in the chemical process industry
The chemical process industry, mainly the production of organic and inorganic base chemicals, has a significantly high demand for electrical and thermal energy. This demand is constant in time and quantity due...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2014 4:18 -
New approach for optimizing energy by adjusting the trade-off coefficient in wind turbines
As fossil fuels run out, more attention should be paid to renewable energies, among which wind energy is one of the best. Therefore, the optimization of its energetic efficiency in variable speed wind turbines...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2013 3:19 -
Global carbon surcharge for the reduction of anthropogenic emission of carbon dioxide
Many governments take the view that voluntary national targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are sufficient to avoid negative climate effects. In the absence of independent verification, however, pledges ...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2020 10:9 -
Are claims of cheap muon production correct?
Muon catalyzed fusion is a process, whereby isotopes of hydrogen undergo nuclear fusion thanks to a muon replacing an electron bringing the nuclei within fusion distance. The muon is then ejected and can facil...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2023 13:24 -
The cultivation of five microalgae species and their potential for biodiesel production
Due to the problems we face today, such as wastewater pollution of aquifers and climate change, it is necessary to search for environmental solutions that help us minimize this problem. An alternative solution...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2022 12:10 -
Energy savings by adopting precision agriculture in rural USA
Energy input in agriculture has increased tremendously and accounts for about 17% of total energy consumed in the USA. Precision agriculture involves knowledge-based technical management systems to optimize ap...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2012 2:22 -
Development of methods and practices of virtual reality as a tool for participatory urban planning: a case study of Vilnius City as an example for improving environmental, social and energy sustainability
Multiple channels of sustainable urban development could be managed in the process of an inter-disciplinary cooperation and creative involvement of all stakeholders. The paper aims to verify how the specific m...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2014 4:7 -
Market development and consequences on end-of-life management of photovoltaic implementation in Europe
The 2018 European Renewables Directive sets a binding target of 32% of renewable energy generation by 2030. Free-field photovoltaic plants are characterised by significant land use and material flows. Although...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2020 10:31 -
Adoption of improved cook stoves by households in informal settlements of Woreda 12, Yeka subcity, Addis Ababa
This study analyzed the factors affecting the use of improved cook stoves (ICS) in informal settlements of Addis Ababa based on the data generated from 450 households drawn from Woreda (Woreda is a local term use...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2022 12:45 -
Transnational sustainability certification for the bioeconomy? Patterns and discourse coalitions of resistance and alternatives in biomass exporting regions
The bioeconomy is nowadays widely proclaimed by governments and corporations around the world as a new paradigm for a sustainable economy. Essentially, it broadly denotes the promotion, development and establi...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2021 11:3 -
Urban electricity governance and the (re)production of heterogeneous electricity constellations in Dar es Salaam
Electricity infrastructures in sub-Saharan African cities are characterized by heterogeneous socio-technical constellations, including alternative grid access channels and off-grid systems. These constellation...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2023 13:23 -
Boulevard of broken dreams: public audit, mobility infrastructure deficits and the limits of correction in Germany
Traffic and transport infrastructure is a vital prerequisite for social and economic development as well as the socio-spatial integration of countries and regions’ societal strata. It sets the course for the f...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2023 13:6 -
A transition to battery electric vehicles without V2G: an outcome explained by a strong electricity regime and a weak automobility regime?
A sustainability transition in mobility is dependent on a transition away from a fossil fuel-based automobility regime. Smart charging, in the form of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) has been presented as one—or even th...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2023 13:29 -
Solar-assisted poultry production in small-scale farms: a case study in the Bekaa semi-arid region, Lebanon
In Lebanon, poultry production is one of the major components of the agricultural sector; however, it suffers from increasing energy costs necessary to cover poultry heating requirements. This affects the prof...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2024 14:8 -
Criteria prioritization for the sustainable development of second-generation bioethanol in Thailand using the Delphi-AHP technique
The availability of underexploited agricultural residues in Thailand opens up the opportunity to supply second-generation bioethanol production. The national implementation of residues-to-biofuel can potential...
Citation: Energy, Sustainability and Society 2021 11:37
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