Jevons paradox Concepts

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

by Matt Ridley · 17 May 2010 · 462pp · 150,129 words

of them soon add up. Energy efficiency has been rising for a very long time and so has energy consumption. This is known as the Jevons paradox after the Victorian economist Stanley Jevons, who put it thus: ‘It is wholly a confusion of ideas to suppose that the economical use of fuel

Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future

by Robert Bryce · 26 Apr 2011 · 520pp · 129,887 words

power of the wind or the radiation from the sun. Increasing efficiency merely paves the way for greater energy consumption, a situation known as the Jevons Paradox. Named for the world’s first energy economist, a Brit named William Stanley Jevons, the paradox has only gained credibility in recent years as increasing

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truth.”27 Perhaps the most exhaustive analysis of energy-efficiency efforts and their effects on consumption was done in 2008 in a book called The Jevons Paradox and the Myth of Resource Efficiency Improvements. The authors, led by economist John Polimeni, looked at dozens of studies on how energy efficiency affects consumption

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each gain. Numerous other analysts have come to the same conclusion as Polimeni.29 We can also look at historical trends for evidence of the Jevons Paradox. James Watt’s improvements to the steam engine led to huge improvements in energy efficiency, with the immediate result being a sharp drop in coal

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, David, ed. Biofuels, Solar and Wind as Renewable Energy Systems. Ithaca, NY: Springer, 2008. Polimeni, John M., Kozo Mayumi, Mario Giampietro, and Blake Alcott. The Jevons Paradox and the Myth of Resource Efficiency Improvements. Sterling, VA: Earthscan, 2008. Prindle, David E. Petroleum Politics and the Texas Railroad Commission. Austin: University of Texas

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The Classical School

by Callum Williams · 19 May 2020 · 288pp · 89,781 words

or 20th centuries. But one bit of Jevons’s reasoning has survived the test of time. He proposed what came to be known as “the Jevons paradox”. Jevons wondered whether Britain could reduce its consumption of coal with a view to postponing the day when the stuff ran out altogether. He dismissed

Aerotropolis

by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay · 2 Jan 2009 · 603pp · 182,781 words

to sleep. Britain’s coal did not run out, and the isles didn’t become fully reliant on oil until after World War I. The “Jevons Paradox” still troubles us: The more efficiently you use a resource, the more of it you will use. Put another way: The better the machine, the

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gains in efficiency have been far outpaced by exponential growth in the number of passengers—the inevitable result of falling costs and ticket prices. The Jevons Paradox illustrates why infinitely renewable, zero-carbon fuels are a necessity—because merely efficient solutions only postpone the day of reckoning. Peak whale teaches us how

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in the White House. So how will peak oil end? The Reckoning: Peak Oil You couldn’t ask for a more ominous example of the Jevons Paradox circa 2020 than the prospect of a hundred million tourists and traders transiting the Gulf on the New Silk Road. Anyone paying close attention to

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a driver’s license. But aviation is growing faster than any of these, a statistic its critics have zeroed in on. In echoes of the Jevons Paradox, it’s growing fast enough to outstrip all of the industry’s earnest efforts to increase fuel efficiency, whether that means younger, lighter, and fuller

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global air traffic.” Which brings us back to the seemingly intractable problem of peak oil—no matter how efficient we are, sooner or later the Jevons Paradox will catch up to us. Switching the world’s automotive fleet to electricity will take decades at least, leaving airlines and passengers vulnerable to the

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that steel and pushing it with coal-fired electricity—the bigger issue is how planes and trains are entwined in their own version of the Jevons Paradox. Trains won’t replace planes, but they will make it easier than ever to fly. Trains are more efficient only across short distances—anything farther

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’s Central Valley was raised by Wired News’s Jason Kambitsis (“High-Speed Rail as a Conduit of Sprawl,” March 16, 2010). As for the Jevons Paradox aspect, this was noted in the debate over HSR connecting to Heathrow. The British Airport Authority said a stop on the proposed line could lead

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Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car

by Anthony M. Townsend · 15 Jun 2020 · 362pp · 97,288 words

their own coal-conserving technology, or be forced out of business. And here’s the painful irony of what’s come to be called the Jevons paradox, or the rebound effect—even though our hypothetical steelmaking sector has converted (quite swiftly, in fact) to the new coal-conserving technology without any government

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self-driving bicycle in the Netherlands,” 62 Intuit, 125 Jacobs, Jane, 57, 228 JD.com, 118, 119, 137 Jelbi MaaS app (Berlin), 109, 110, 216 Jevons paradox, 144–45 Jevons, William Stanley, 143–44, 145 just-in-time inventory approaches, 157 Ju, Wendy, 40 Kalanick, Travis, 140, 179 Kamen, Dean, 62 Keller

Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence

by Robert Bryce · 16 Mar 2011 · 415pp · 103,231 words

of fuels is equivalent to a diminished consumption. The very contrary is the truth.”17 This observation has since come to be known as the Jevons paradox.18 In 2003, Vaclav Smil published a magnificent book, Energy at the Crossroads, that provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the history of energy

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. 16. Vaclav Smil, Energy at the Crossroads, 167. 17. Ibid., 332. 18. For more on this topic, see Wikipedia. Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Jevons_paradox. 344 Notes to Chapter 12 19. Smil, op. cit., 335. 20. Labonte and Makinen, op. cit. CHAPTER 12 1. Schmidt interview with the author, March

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and carbon dioxide emissions, 271–272 and Iran, 250 oil reserves in, 68 Jebel Ali port, 54 Jefferson, Thomas, 1 Jevons, William Stanley, 142–143 Jevons paradox, 143 Johnson, Stephen L., 184 Jubail, Saudi Arabia, 237–240 Labonte, Marc, 143 Lanchester, John, 42 LaSorda, Tom, 193 Latin America, 167–168 Lay, Ken

Four Futures: Life After Capitalism

by Peter Frase · 10 Mar 2015 · 121pp · 36,908 words

production peaked and declined. Moreover, he saw efforts at energy conservation as inevitably doomed. Making the case for what came to be known as the “Jevons paradox,” he argued that increased energy efficiency would simply lead to more energy consumption because the cheaper power would be used more. What Jevons could not

Energy and Civilization: A History

by Vaclav Smil · 11 May 2017

such common energy converters as internal combustion engines and lights, there is still much room for further improvement. Box 1.6 Efficiency improvements and the Jevons paradox Technical advances have brought many impressive efficiency gains, and the history of lighting offers one of the best examples (Nordhaus 1998; Fouquet and Pearson 2006

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tech predictions of all time. Scientific American http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pogue-all-time-worst-tech-predictions. Polimeni, J. M., et al. 2008. The Jevons Paradox and the Myth of Resource Efficiency Improvements. London: Earthscan. Polmar, N. 2006. Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events

The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future

by Michael Levi · 28 Apr 2013

consumption. It can actually result in more. 138 • THE POWER SURGE The claim that efficiency does not actually reduce resource consumption became known as the Jevons Paradox, and more than a century after his death it lives on in fights over the true promise of greater efficiency in American energy use. “Mr

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wrote mockingly on his blog.96 Yet reality appears to disagree with the strong skeptics. When it comes to cars, the naïve invocation of the Jevons Paradox leads to a simple conclusion: if all Americans start buying new cars that are twice as fuel efficient as their old ones, they will drive

There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years

by Mike Berners-Lee · 27 Feb 2019

that if the UK used coal more efﬁciently it would end up wanting more of it, not less27. This phenomenon has become known as the Jevons Paradox. Energy efﬁciency leads, by default, to an increase in total demand, rather than the decrease that is often assumed. It applies just as widely today

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kicking in along with a stack of investment in new extraction technologies. And so it goes on. This is just a caricature of how the Jevons Paradox works, but I hope it demonstrates the principle. What is the catch with energy efﬁciency? 83 Resource Consumption Over the years we have become many

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useful in the future. But I am saying they are no good at all on their own. (It is only fair to write that the Jevons Paradox has been hotly debated over the years. More detail on this and why the deniers are wrong is in this endnote28.) By default efficiency improvements

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lead to greater environmental burden Efficiency Figure 3.8. The Jevons Paradox. 100% 84 3 ENERGY Given the catch, what can efﬁciency do for us? We badly need more efﬁciency, but we also need to learn not

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categorises rebounds into various types (substitution rebounds, income/outcome rebounds, embodied rebounds, and secondary rebounds.) It concludes rebounds are hugely important but that generally the Jevons Paradox does not exist because rebounds do not usually sum to more than 100%. However, this conclusion is reached because even this paper fails to take

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and inequalities of distribution 15 irrigation technology 45–46 Italy, wealth distribution 130–35, 133 Japan nuclear energy 76 sunlight/radiant energy 70, 70–71 Jevons paradox, energy efﬁciency 82–83 jobs see work/employment joined up perspectives 189–92, 221 journalists see media roles Kennedy, Bobby: speech on GNP 124 Keys