Look around today and you'll see wind turbines in the countryside, solar panels on the roof of the street and on electric cars.
These new technologies are part of the transition to low-carbon energy, or (even better)
Zero carbon energy system
More technology is needed before we can achieve this goal.
But energy conversion is not just a technical problem.
They also involve the way people live, their choices and their livelihoods.
This is easy to see when observing energy conversion.
For example, due to the widespread use of power and electric showers, daily showers have now become the norm.
Many people live in the suburbs or in the countryside because they have a car to travel around.
The lights that used to illuminate our streets have disappeared.
The rise and fall of the Diwali is a great way to tell the past energy conversion.
This is a story about the disruption of energy supply, technological innovation, new business models, the emergence of new jobs, the disappearance of old jobs and the unintended consequences of new technologies.
In early 1800, the only home lighting that most people can afford is candles, and the level of public street lighting is severely limited by the high cost of whale oil used to light lanterns.
The streets of the city are black and dangerous.
As continued whale hunting drained the number of whales worldwide, the price of whale oil became so unstable that it stimulated innovative efforts to develop natural gas from coal (Called town gas)
As a safer and cheaper lighting option.
This shift from the use of whale oil may save whales from complete extinction, but subsequent development of fossil fuel alternatives (
Oil, coal and gas)
Global warming.
With the rapid growth of the urban population of more than 1800 years old, the urban authorities have gradually assumed the responsibility of expanding public street lamps to all areas of the city on a large scale, part of it is to address the perception of high crime rates on dark and crowded streets.
This requires new lighting infrastructure and labor
Lamp Man-
Operate them.
A century ago, if you were walking around Dublin at dusk, you would almost certainly see a light fire man walking or cycling.
An Elegy poem, published in 1929, describes their daily life at night: at that time, the Dublin company hired about 4,400 gas lamps and 25 lighting lights.
In front of each lamp, the light-man must carefully turn his torch and lift it up on his five lamps --
Foot of Malacca rattan.
Throughout the evening, the lights and fires often encounter strange characters.
For example, they sometimes want to catch unusual insects that gather in the lights.
Other times they saw terrible events: on 1920, a light-fire man was on the curtain of Thomas Mack.
Their night shift status also made the lamp man unique: when a curfew was imposed during the War of Independence, the light man was one of the few groups allowed to go out, some groups were secretly recruited by the IRA to convey messages and smuggle guns, sometimes hiding them in lights.
In the middle of the night, the Diwali occasionally witnessed things that society preferred to keep in the dark at that time, and in one case a drunken priest was soliciting.
In the words of a late Diwali, they "know everything . . . . . . I saw everything ".
Their night routine also ended with all the lights being manually turned off.
Electricity began to replace natural gas in the 1900 s, and the light-and-fire victims of automation.
In Dublin, the phase-out of natural gas lighting began in 1912 and ended in 1957, although it remained in Phoenix Park until 1980 due to heritage reasons.
However, as the number of lighting workers in the new energy power sector has declined, the number of workers is surging.
3000 new jobs have been built, new utilities have become a very large employer, thousands of workers across the country are involved, and meter readers have become loyal infantry to the new energy regime.
Today, in the transformation of low-carbon energy, what work is likely to change, which may end the meter reader, although in the past decade, as more and more people submit their meter readings through the Internet, the meter reader has been declining.
As ashows, Ireland has a high proportion of houses that use oil for central heating, indicating that oil delivery personnel are at risk.
Jobs from peat to renewable energy have been declining for some time.
Appropriate retraining and support, especially given the broader automation trends that affect employment and employment, are critical to today's energy transition and minimal disruption processes.
There will be many opportunities for the transition to a low-carbon energy system.
These will appear in sectors such as the alternative energy supply chain (
Such as bio-energy)
Maintenance of renewable power (
Especially wind power
New business models, such as AND, transform our houses to make them more comfortable and efficient.
The energy system is a human system. people need to be the core of our thinking about energy conversion.
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