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A Solar-Hydrogen Economy

Driving the Green Hydrogen Industrial Revolution
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A Solar-Hydrogen Economy by John Mathews explores the urgent need for a transition from fossil fuel-based systems to a sustainable green industrial framework. It emphasises the limitations of current policies like carbon taxes and emissions trading, advocating instead for a systemic shift to a technoeconomic model centred on hydrogen produced via solar power, renewables, and circular flows. The book argues that this evolution in energy production is crucial for the survival and continued development of industrial civilisation.
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Ideal for policymakers, academics, environmental strategists, business leaders, and anyone interested in sustainable energy transitions and green industrial development.

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In this study the green hydrogen economy is depicted as successor and replacement of the fossil fuel economy in its entirety. Steps involved in building a green industrial revolution on the basis of hydrogen are outlined and the dynamics of building a technoeconomic green successor to fossil fuels are explored.

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Guiding the emergence of a new green economy, based on a green industrial system and on green growth for its propagation, is the core challenge of our time. Efforts so far to switch to renewables in power generation have succeeded in partially transforming energy systems.

Efforts to capture the process through imposition of carbon taxes or emissions trading schemes have fallen far short: these are policies based on simplistic comparative static economic frameworks involving changing prices but never engaging with the dynamic industrial drivers of change.

A systemic perspective, focusing on the supersession of one technoeconomic system, based on fossil fuels, by another system, based on hydrogen, renewables and circular flows, is called for. The argument is developed that a new politics of energy is evolving from one based on fossil fuels to one where our industrial civilization is maturing and sees the manufacture of energy and energy devices as central to its continued survival.

A Solar-Hydrogen Economy by John Mathews explores these themes and more, providing a vision for a future centred around sustainable and renewable energy sources.

Series: Strategies for Sustainable Development Series

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Praised by Carlota Perez as "fascinating" and offering an impressive vision of green hydrogen powering major industries, the book is seen as timely and potentially transformative. Arkebe Oqubay highlights its ambitious yet realistic approach to global economic restructuring through solar-hydrogen energy and green industrialisation, making it essential reading for policymakers, business leaders, and investors concerned with decarbonisation and sustainable growth.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781839986413

Publisher: Anthem Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 November 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Anthem Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 454g

Pages: 88

About the Author

John Mathews is emeritus professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, tenable in the Macquarie Business School. He is the author of Global Green Shift (Anthem Press 2017) and of a blog on greening issues at: www.globalgreenshift.org. He was awarded the Schumpeter Prize in 2018 for his work on green industrial dynamics.

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