Sustainable Energy Pricing (eBook)

Gary M. Zatzman is a researcher with the EEC Research Organisation, in Halifax NS, Canada, a multinational community of researchers from various fields in engineering, social science, and the natural sciences researching ways for industry to become sustainable, both from an economic and environmental standpoint. With this latest work, the author synthesizes decades of industry and teaching experience and dozens of papers and books into a work that breaks new ground in the discussion of sustainability in the energy sector.

Acknowledgements xiii

Preface xv

Introduction 1

0.1 Requirements of a Sustainable Energy Pricing Model 9

0.2 Outline of the Contents of this Volume 30

1. Fundamental Notions 37

1.1 "Energy Crunch" or: The Problems and Issues of Modeling an
Energy Price 39

1.2 Matter, Energy, and Efficiency from Scientific Standpoint
66

1.3 Truth as a Scientific Frame of Reference 69

1.4 Phenomenally-based Sustainability: The Nature-science
Criterion 80

1.5 Value Assessment, Value Addition and Phenomenally-based
Energy Pricing 94

1.6 Newtonian 'Mechanism' and Mystification of How Value is
Transformed into Price 104

1.7 Risk Assessment & Management and Aphenomenal Energy
Pricing 107

1.8 The Temporal Criterion of Long-term Sustainability and its
Implications 116

2. Newtonian Mechanism and Deconstruction of Scientific
Disinformation 137

2.1 Introduction 139

2.2 Einstein's Relativity and Newton's Mechanism Compared
140

2.3 Newton's First Assumption 142

2.4 Fundamental Assumptions of Electromagnetic Theory 153

2.5 The Engineering Approach and Its Significance 175

2.6 First Conclusions 182

2.7 Continuity and Linearity 182

3. Offshore Networks of Control: Providing Short-Term
Multi-Entity International Oil and Gas Plays with a Guarantee
209

4. Current Energy Pricing Models" Origins & Problems
223

4.1 Consumption without Production 226

4.2 Imposed Energy Pricing 246

4.3 Inherent Features of the Current Energy-Pricing Model:
Matters Affecting Individuals' Daily Existence 256

4.4 Societal Implications of the Current Energy-Pricing Model
for the Long Term 269

4.5 Long-term vs Short-term Returns-on-investment [ROI] From
Energy Exploration & Development 296

4.6 Resource "Renewability" and 'Sustainable Negative Rent'
304

5. The Role of Coal in the Modern Evolution of Energy Pricing
309

5.1 Introduction 309

5.2 Significance of Commodifying Labor-time & All Material
Production -- Including its Energy Source 313

5.3 From "Law of Supply & Demand" (at the margin) to
"Consumption without Production" 335

6. Carbon Emission Credits -- Theory & Practice
341

6.1 Introduction 341

7. "Peak Oil" and Other Fits of Pique Among Resource
Economists 435

7.1 Introduction 435

7.2 Human Factor Social Consciousness & "Abstracting
Absence" 453

Bibliography 477

Appendix -Disinformation in the Social & Historical
Sciences: Concerning Time Functions and Sustainability of Resource
Development 521

Index 575

"The book will be invaluable to engineers,
managers, economists, and scientists working in the energy industry
and economists and engineers working on sustainability, whether in
industry or research." (Chemistry &
Industry, 1 January 2013)