Public preferences for alternative electricity mixes in post-Fukushima Japan

The five preferences for post-traumatic SAH

Acute traumatic brain injury is a worldwide public health crisis. Post-traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a finding that is present at a frequency of 40% according to data from American TCDB (1,2). Among the mechanisms that have been implicated as causes of post-traumatic SAH is the cortical bleeding through the subarachnoid space. It is estimated that the incidence of post-traumatic SA...

Fukushima: Catastrophe, Compensation, and Justice in Japan

Environmental effects of interstate power trading on electricity consumption mixes.

Although many studies of electricity generation use national or state average generation mix assumptions, in reality a great deal of electricity is transferred between states with very different mixes of fossil and renewable fuels, and using the average numbers could result in incorrect conclusions in these studies. We create electricity consumption profiles for each state and for key industry ...

Informed public preferences for electricity portfolios with CCS and other low-carbon technologies.

Public perceptions of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) and other low-carbon electricity-generating technologies may affect the feasibility of their widespread deployment. We asked a diverse sample of 60 participants recruited from community groups in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to rank 10 technologies (e.g., coal with CCS, natural gas, nuclear, various renewables, and energy efficiency), and...

Public preferences for electricity contracts including renewable energy: A marketing analysis with choice experiments

This study aims to understand people's preferences concerning different energy sources with a particular focus on renewables. Households' preferences were assessed by means of a choice experiment on a sample of people living in Veneto (north eastern Italy). The analysis considered real marketing scenarios, presenting different choice options inspired by real market offers by different companies...