Market Study on Sustainable Energy Solutions: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
Market study - 2 pages - Green marketing
The existential threat climate change poses to our global ecosystem has never carried greater immediacy or necessity for sustainable energy solutions. This research will critically look into the sustainable energy market, revealing primary trends signaling a paradigm change in the...
The Hydro Quebec company and organizational changes
Case study - 4 pages - Management
The Hydro Quebec Company is owned by the Government of Quebec. It is responsible for the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in energy sources of Quebec. Its headquarters are located in Montreal. Hydro Quebec was born in 1944; its goal was to serve the Montreal area by...
Sensitivity analysis of the fertilizer industry
Tutorials/exercises - 71 pages - Business strategy
Crude Oil is one of the most important sources of energy for a country. The prices of crude oil depend on many factors like Supply restrictions by Oil producing nations, demand for oil, uncertainties like war in the middle east and also the stability of US Dollar, in which crude oil is...
Has a third oil crisis emerged? (January 2007)
Thesis - 13 pages - Economy general
Within a time span of twenty-seven years between 1973 and 2000, the global oil market has been shaken by two major unexpected “shocks”. In this context, it is worth recalling the definition of an oil shock, that is often confused in the minds of the public. This phrase has been used to...
Validating Energy-Oriented CGE Models - Jayson Beckman, Thomas Hertel and Wallace Tyner (2011) - Book analysis
Book review - 3 pages - Economy general
The CGE approach constitutes an open framework for linkages to models from other disciplines, thereby accommodating the integrated assessment of sustainability issues.
A look at Electricite de France (EDF)
Thesis - 12 pages - Business strategy
There have been great modifications made in the organization of the electric sector in Europe. It is agreed that the sector management must change and must adapt to the requirements of the European Unique Market, and that the invisible power of the private market must replace the all too visible...
Renewable Energy Sources in the United Kingdom
Course material - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
Carbon dioxide has some negative effects which include the greenhouse effect, which creates a ground-level ozone layer that prevents the earth from cooling, hence adverse temperatures. Also, it causes climate change and due to the earth overheating, the water levels in the oceans have increased,...
Alternative sources of energy: a detailed presentation about the why, how and when
Presentation - 13 pages - Ecology & environment
This document is a PowerPoint presentation about alternative sources of energy: what are they exactly, why do we need them, how do we find or create them? What is the future of alternative sources of energy?
Renewable energy: case study
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
There are two main types of energy in the world. The first one is renewable energy, and the other is non-renewable energy. All the forms of energy used are classified in either of the two categories. Non renewable energy is the type of energy that has...
Crowdfunding for sustainable energy projects: the criteria of selection by platform managers and competition between investors
Thesis - 25 pages - Finance
Despite the contributions of research on the crowdfunding phenomenon, there is a lack of knowledge on the link between crowdfunding and sustainability and renewable energies in particular and also a lack of understanding from the point of view of investors and managers of crowdfunding platforms:...
Renewable Energy and the Hotel Industry: A Perfect Fit?
Case study - 27 pages - Psychology
Renewable energy is one of the fastest growing sectors in today's energy market. Energy from solar, wind, hydro power, tidal energy and biomass sources is being harnessed to provide energy that is both environmentally friendly and secure from the...
Energy Demand and Population Growth
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
The key drivers of the demand for energy around the world include growth in population and the economy. Estimates reveal that the entire population of the world will grow 1.3 billion people from 2011 to 2030. Additionally, the real income of people will be expected to double...
Electricity/Energy crises of Pakistan and difficulties that it present to the management of textile industry Faisalabad
Case study - 40 pages - Management
Pakistan is an agriculture country and its main source of income is agriculture. Main cities like Karachi Lahore, Peshawar and Faisalabad etc. are industrial cities of Pakistan. Faisalabad is very famous for its textile industry and provides 25billion$ annual export earnings (Shah.S, 2013) and...
Occidental intelligences facing Middle East's quest for nuclear weapons: the case of Israel Vs. the case of Iran
Essay - 10 pages - International relations
The nuclear bomb is much more than a common weapon, it can determine the balance of the powers, it is a crucial point for understanding the international strategic relations: the nuclear bomb represents the possibility for a country to be wiped off the map. Between 1950 and 1990, it...
The Iranian nuclear issue
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
Iran, a country regarded as a major red herring by Western powers, has been at the center of all debates on the international stage following the acceleration of its uranium enrichment program. The Iranian issue is presented now as "The central political issue of our time" mixing all the new...
Can the proliferation of nuclear weapons of mass destruction be halted?
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Proliferation is a traditional issue of International Security and has always been at the heart of strategic analysis. In the last few weeks, the International Community has been worried about the situation in Pakistan. General Musharaff proclaimed a state of emergency and convened general...
Nuclear taboo
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Sixty four years after the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the legacy of nuclear weapons remains one of non-use. Despite perennial involvement in large-scale violent conflict, the institutionalization of nuclear weapons in military planning, and the growing ease...
Kenneth Waltz's on nuclear weapons
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
Do you agree with Waltz's recommendation to spread nuclear weapons? On Sunday, April 9, 2006, the Washington Post announced that “the Bush administration is studying options for military strikes against Iran as part of a broader strategy of coercive diplomacy to pressure Tehran to...
Nuclear weapons and world order
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In his opening remarks at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington DC on April 13, President Obama said, “Two decades after the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history - the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack...
Nuclear weapons: Engagement versus antagonism
Thesis - 4 pages - Political science
Nuclear weapons are as controversial and notorious today as they were in August 1945 when the first atomic weapon was dropped on Hiroshima. These “weapons of mass destruction” inspire awe and fear, and some believe will eventually result in Armageddon. This paper will endeavor to...
Handling and disposal of low level nuclear waste
Essay - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
Low level nuclear waste includes materials which are not radioactive themselves but have become contaminated because of their exposure to neutron radiations. These items find their use in nuclear power plants, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, government and private development...
America's response to Indian Nuclear development
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Political science
The United States and democracy go hand in hand. Most would be surprised to hear that the United States does not even have the world's largest democracy. That is India's claim to fame. For the U.S., this is a good and a bad thing. It is good to have a corresponding government with another...
Get thee behind me, A-bomb: Inverted Christianity and nuclear influence in a Canticle for Leibowitz
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
It comes as no surprise that the thematic bulk of Walter M. Miller Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz is drawn from traditional Christian mythology and lore. Age-old Catholic hierarchy, the Latin language and Biblical quotations are used liberally to set an appropriately pious scene. From its...
Coal: energy of the future or energy of the past?
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
In 2006, Doctor Heinz Scholtholt, member of a German firm of the energy industry (STEAG), pretended that Germany could become the worldwide leader of the coal industry by developing new clean coal technologies. Less than a year later, the German coalition's government has decided to stop...
Renewable Energy Resources
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The use of renewable energy sources is one of biggest arguments of the twenty first century. On the one side there the supporters of use of this energy for numerous reasons while n the other hand there are those opposed to the ideology. It is a controversial topic with each side...
Renewable energy: Achievements and potentials
Thesis - 3 pages - Physics
The potential of non-conventional energy sources is enormous as they can in principle meet many times the world's energy demand. Renewable energy (non-conventional) sources such as small hydro power, biomass, wind, solar, and geothermal can provide sustainable energy...
Non conventional energy sources: Future necessity
Thesis - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
Energy is the primary and most universal measure of all kinds of work by human beings and nature. Energy is also defined as the ability or the capacity to do work. We use energy to do work and make all movements. When we eat, our body transforms the food into energy to...
Energy choices in Europe: the case of electricity
Essay - 14 pages - Economy general
Energy is a vital element for the economy as a whole as every sector demands its usage constantly. It is not an end-product by itself, but a pre-requisite for most of the economic activities. A sudden increase in energy prices or a disruption of supply can entail heavy economic...
Energy Marketing
Case study - 6 pages - Services marketing
Marketing is a discipline of management that seeks to determine the offers of goods, services or ideas based on attitudes and the motivation of consumers , the public or society in general. In this paper. We will be studying the marketing of energy . The first question we must ask...
Utilization of solar energy: An alternative of conventional energy sources
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
The earth continuously gets the shower of radiation of the sun, which is the mother of all forms of energy-conventional or non conventional. The amount of solar radiation reaching the earth is called “insolation” -the short form for “incident solar radiation”. Solar...
