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Energy as an indicator of modernization in Latin America, 1890-1925
(Wiley, 2010)
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In the absence of comparable macroeconomic indicators for most of the Latin American economies before
the 1930s, the apparent consumption of energy is used in this paper as a proxy of the degree of
modernization of Latin ...
Will small energy consumers be faster in transition? Evidence from the early shift from coal to oil in Latin America
(Elsevier, 2012)
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This paper provide evidence of the early transition from coal to oil for 20 Latin American
countries over the first half of the 20th century, which does not fit the transition experiences of large
energy consumers. These ...
Freshwater for cooling needs: a long-run approach to the nuclear water footprint in Spain
(Elsevier, 2017)
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From the invention of the steam engine to the present, water has represented a significant input to the energy system, although this has been mostly ignored in the literature. In Spain, the most arid country in Europe, ...
Nuclear engineering and technology transfer: the Spanish strategies to deal with US, French and German nuclear manufacturers, 1955–1985
(Routledge, 2020)
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We analysed the process of construction and connection to the electrical grid of four Spanish nuclear power plants with different financial and technological foreign partners: those of Zorita (PWR by Westinghouse), Garoña ...
Siting (and mining) at the border Spain-Portugal nuclear transboundary issues
(Brepols, 2018)
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This article is focused on nuclear transboundary issues between Portugal and Spain, two countries that share a long history of nuclear collaboration and conflict of late, where national borders played a crucial role. The ...
Engineers and scientists as commercial agents of the Spanish nuclear programme
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart,
We aim at analysing the role of engineers and scientists as agents of economic modernization in Spain, which at the time was an underdeveloped economy ruled by an authoritarian regime.
Energy and economic growth: the stylized facts
(IAEE, 2016)
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We summarize what we know about energy and economic growth in a set of
stylized facts. We combine analysis of a panel data set of 99 countries from 1971
to 2010 with analysis of some longer run historical data. Our key ...
Nuclear power for a dictatorship: state and business involvement in the Spanish atomic program 1950-1985
(SAGE, 2016)
Artículo / Artikulua,
Spain was the first developing country to exploit a nuclear power plant commercially. By
the early 1970s Spain had become the major nuclear client of the USA, the world’s
largest reactor exporter. Despite its importance, ...
200 years diversifying the energy mix? Diversification paths of the energy baskets of European early comers vs. latecomers
(Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2017)
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The changes in the composition of the energy basket in the long run lead to energy transitions. Primary energy substitution models allow addressing these phenomena. However, the diversification paths of the energy mix of ...
Las dimensiones sociales de la percepción de la energía nuclear. Un análisis del caso español (1960-2015)
(CSIC, 2017)
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La energía nuclear es una tecnología compleja, que requiere un uso muy intensivo de recursos y una toma de decisiones muy centralizada, cuya gobernanza supone un auténtico reto para las sociedades democráticas. En el ...