Dr. Robert Lifset

join the @chstmorg Energy History Working Group this Friday, Feb 9th, at 1:30 pm EST. We will discuss Chad Montrie's “‘What is Labour’s Stake?’: Workers and the History of Environmentalism in Alberta.” Paper + zoom head to: @ASEH_org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">chstm.org/content/energy… @NiCHE_Canada @lawcha_org

Join the @chstmorg Energy History Working Group this Friday Dec 8 1:30 PM EST. We will discuss a paper from Wout Saelens, “Energy politics: urban fuel policy and the transition to coal in Ghent (eighteenth-nineteenth centuries).” chstm.org/content/energy… for zoom link + paper.

@johnarnold 3 Mile Island was not responsible for the decline of nuclear power in America. The largest and most significant wave of plant cancellations took place in 1974. See “Nuclear Power in America: The Story of a Failed Energy Transition” Environmental History 24 (July 2919).

The US broke ground on 60 nuclear power plants between 1970-78 until 3 Mile Island halted new construction in 1979. Had we instead kept building at that pace, we'd have about 4.2 BkWh of nuclear generation today. Coincidentally, total US gen from all sources in '22 was 4.2 BkWh.

@arielronid @A_NeedhamNYU I would look for a chapter in one of Walker’s earlier books- “Controlling the Atom.” You could also look at the chapter he wrote for my edited volume on the energy crisis. It does a good job of quickly condensing a great deal of atomic history.

energy historians, can anyone recommend a shortish, undergrad-appropriate article or chapter about the Atomic Energy Commission, Lillienthal or just early civilian nuclear energy thinking and development? @A_NeedhamNYU @RLifset

Join the @chstmorg Energy History Working Group this Friday Nov 10 1:30 PM EST. We will discuss a paper from Petra Dolata and @vrsmcfarland on “Oil Consultant Walter J. Levy.” See chstm.org/content/energy… for zoom link + paper.

Join the @chstmorg Energy History Working Group this Friday, October 13, 1:30 pm EST to discuss Chao Ren's paper, “Global Circulation of Low-End Expertise: Knowledge, Hierarchy, and Labor Migration in a Burmese Oilfield.” Go to chstm.org/content/energy… zoom link + paper pdf.

"New Perspectives in Energy History"-- we're going to bring back our one-day environmental history conference @yale with a focus on energy history-- save the date and propose a paper environmentalhistory.yale.edu/programs/confe…

Join the @chstmorg Energy History Working Group this friday (Sept 8) at 1:30 EST for our first meeting of 2023-24. We will discuss a paper from Tobah Aukland-Peck titled "Crude Oils: Petroleum Culture in Postwar Britain." Paper link + zoom: chstm.org/content/energy….

@A_NeedhamNYU Might find this useful.

We are hiring! Engineering Ethics in Society at @CUBoulder is looking for a full-time Teaching Assistant Professor in Hist of/Sci/Med/Tech or STS. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail…. I'm chairing the committee. Please get in touch with questions.

The Seven Stages of climate denial: 1. It's not real 2. It's not us 3. It's not that bad 4. We have time 5. It's too expensive to fix 6. Here's a fake solution 7. It's too late: you should have warned us earlier Trolls use all of these stages to deny reality of #climatechange

interesting source re: our conversation w/ @RLifset ab/ different policy aims of small & big US oil producers. Atlantic Richfield (as usual?) the company stirring things up (NB @odinnmelsted @Bron_Michiel)

Energy historians! Come present your work with the Energy History Working Group. We are building the 2023-24 schedule now. We workshop full length WIP work in the field of energy history. Priority deadline August 15th.

E was happy to give this talk on the 1973 "oil shock" at the @CarsonCenter in the context of a stimulating conference ("Towards and Environmental History of the Oil Industry) organized by @odinnmelsted @ccmmody @moneschleper youtu.be/2rlI5WjBy3w

nice present-day example of the kind of oil spillovers into alternative energy that we study in the Managing Scarcity project. very similar to innovations in uranium leaching in the 1970s (@Bron_Michiel). even a mention of geothermal for @odinnmelsted ft.com/content/7616a9…

@chstmorg Energy History Working Group, Fri June 9, 1:30 PM EST. Two Euro #energyhist papers: Tobah Aukland-Peck, mines and British Modernism; Helge Wendt, coal waste in the interwar period in Fr and Ger. To see papers and meeting zoom, log in chstm.org/content/energy…. #envirohist

Join us virtually today! Come for the yellowcake, stay for the nuclear conspiracy! @chstmorg @brianleechphd @vrsmcfarland @RLifset

Joel is the best. Such a kind and thoughtful guy. I loved hanging out with him when I was a grad student at Carnegie Mellon.