Soft energy paths

Soft energy paths revisited: Politics and practice in energy technology transitions

This paper argues that current efforts to study and advocate for a change in energy technologies to reduce their climate and other environmental impacts often ignore the political, social, and bodily implications of energy technology choices. Framing renewable energy technologies exclusively in terms of their environmental benefits dismisses important questions about how energy infrastructures ...

“Future Energy Grid” – Migration Paths into the Internet of Energy

This paper presents results obtained within the project “Future Energy Grid”. The main goal is to identify technological migration paths for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in order to support the evolution of the power system towards a smart grid. To achieve this, three “extreme” scenarios for 2030 have been developed, adapting a scientific methodology for scenario techniques....

Optimization methods for finding minimum energy paths.

A comparison of chain-of-states based methods for finding minimum energy pathways (MEPs) is presented. In each method, a set of images along an initial pathway between two local minima is relaxed to find a MEP. We compare the nudged elastic band (NEB), doubly nudged elastic band, string, and simplified string methods, each with a set of commonly used optimizers. Our results show that the NEB an...

Minimum - Energy Flight Paths for Uavs Using

Soft Interactions at High Energy

Soft interactions are not easily disentangled from hard ones. In an operational definition of soft and hard processes one finds that at presently analyzed scales there is an interplay of soft and hard processes. As the scale increases, so does the amount of hard processes. So far, nothing is as soft nor as hard as we would like.