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EAN : 9782348057526
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 400
Size : 154 x 240 mm
In the Face of Power

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Alain Gras (postface de)
Collection : Sciences humaines
Release date : 06/02/2020
The history of energy has long been presented as a natural, linear evolution from primary energy to fossil energy. While alternative forms of energy have accompanied the arrival of the industrial age, energy transitions have most often been the result of political decisions aimed at seizing control over workers.

All societies...
The history of energy has long been presented as a natural, linear evolution from primary energy to fossil energy. While alternative forms of energy have accompanied the arrival of the industrial age, energy transitions have most often been the result of political decisions aimed at seizing control over workers.

All societies have an energy system through which it succeeds in transforming primary energy sources (solar radiation, wood, hydraulic, coal, etc.) into useful energy (muscular strength, heat, electricity, mechanical movement, etc.). Yet, works on energy debates, alternative practices and opposition to the dominant offers are few and far between.
This groundbreaking work explores how, over two centuries, various projects and experiments have sought to invent an alternative, energy efficient, sustainable world and how these projects tried to stand up to power symbolized largely by fossil fuels, by envisioning other social relationships, hypotheses, and technical solutions.


 
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EAN : 9782348057526
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 400
Size : 154 x 240 mm
La Découverte