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The revolt of the chemists: biofuels, agricultural overproduction, and the chemurgy movement in New Deal America 化学家的反抗:生物燃料,农业生产过剩,以及美国新政时期的化学运动
IF 1.2 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2022.2026135
Frank Uekötter
ABSTRACT This article proposes a new reading of the chemurgy movement in New Deal America. It shows that the quest for renewable energy was rooted in a vision of a new economy based on chemical knowledge. Rather than a goal in itself, fuel alcohol for automotive uses was meant to showcase the problem-solving power of chemists and the urgency to put chemists in charge on all levels. The article places this vision in the context of the existential crisis of capitalism in the 1930s and traces the movement’s formation, its defining projects and their failures, and how the cause petered out in the post-war years. The chemurgy movement failed for three reasons. Its defining product, fuel alcohol, was not competitive on existing markets, the movement lacked political allies, particularly in the farming community, and faced vigorous resistance from the oil industry, and its vision of expert rule never gained momentum.
本文对美国新政时期的化学运动提出了一种新的解读。它表明,对可再生能源的追求根植于一种基于化学知识的新经济愿景。汽车用燃料酒精本身并不是一个目标,而是为了展示化学家解决问题的能力,以及让化学家负责所有层面的紧迫性。本文将这一愿景置于20世纪30年代资本主义存在危机的背景下,追溯了该运动的形成,其定义项目和失败,以及该事业如何在战后岁月中逐渐消失。化学运动失败的原因有三个。其决定性产品燃料酒精在现有市场上没有竞争力,该运动缺乏政治盟友,特别是在农业社区,并面临来自石油行业的强烈抵制,其专家统治的愿景从未获得动力。
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The materiality of space heating: heat pumps and heating transitions in Twentieth-century Switzerland 空间供暖的物质性:二十世纪瑞士的热泵和供暖过渡
IF 1.2 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2022.2033385
Irene Pallua
ABSTRACT In the past thirty years, heat pumps have increasingly gained importance in Switzerland as an environmentally-friendly technology for space heating. The paper traces their history of back to World War One when their use was first envisioned by experts in order to save coal. Despite promising pilot projects, heat pumps were marginalized by the end of the 1950s. It was only in the 1990s that they once again became a valid option. Their marginalization has previously been explained with the availability of cheap oil, their rediscovery in the 1990s with favorable policies. This essay aims at complementing these explanations by focusing on the materiality of space heating (energy, buildings, and heating systems), a topic that so far has only been touched upon in the history of renewables. By embedding heat pumps into a broader energy history, the essay provides new insights into both realized and envisioned energy transitions.
在过去的三十年里,热泵作为一种环保的空间供暖技术在瑞士越来越受到重视。这篇论文追溯了它们的历史,可以追溯到第一次世界大战,当时专家们为了节省煤炭,首次设想了它们的使用。尽管有很有前途的试点项目,热泵在20世纪50年代末被边缘化了。直到20世纪90年代,它们才再次成为一个有效的选择。他们的边缘化先前被解释为廉价石油的可用性,他们在20世纪90年代因优惠政策而重新发现。本文旨在通过关注空间供暖(能源、建筑和供暖系统)的重要性来补充这些解释,这一主题迄今为止只在可再生能源的历史上被触及。通过将热泵嵌入到更广泛的能源历史中,本文为实现和设想的能源转换提供了新的见解。
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Historicizing renewables: issues and challenges 历史性的可再生能源:问题和挑战
IF 1.2 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2022.2033384
Ute Hasenöhrl, Patrick Kupper
ABSTRACT The essay discusses some main challenges involved in historicizing renewables. It highlights three approaches that we regard as central for re- and deconstructing the history of renewables, and which show potential for rethinking familiar narratives in both the history of technology and environmental history. First, we argue that the adoption or rejection of renewables was specific to place and time and thus can only be understood within a framework of sociotechnological change. Second, we stress that the term renewables has its own history and that the term and its equivalents not only represented a number of technologies and energy carriers but also signified certain ideas about present and future society. Third, we explain why a deeper knowledge of how renewable energies were utilized throughout history not only leads to a better understanding of the past, but might help to identify challenges and pitfalls in current energy transitions.
本文讨论了将可再生能源历史化所涉及的一些主要挑战。它强调了三种方法,我们认为这是重新和解构可再生能源历史的核心,它们显示了重新思考技术史和环境史中熟悉的叙述的潜力。首先,我们认为采用或拒绝可再生能源是特定于地点和时间的,因此只能在社会技术变革的框架内理解。其次,我们强调可再生能源一词有它自己的历史,这个词及其等同物不仅代表了许多技术和能源载体,而且还代表了对现在和未来社会的某些想法。第三,我们解释了为什么更深入地了解可再生能源在历史上是如何被利用的,不仅可以更好地理解过去,而且可能有助于识别当前能源转型中的挑战和陷阱。
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引用次数: 3
Putting oceans to work: tidal energy in the USA and the USSR, 1930–1970 让海洋发挥作用:1930-1970年美国和苏联的潮汐能
IF 1.2 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2022.2038982
F. Frey
ABSTRACT Aspirations to convert the movement of ebb and flow into electricity have a long and checkered history. Proposals for tidal power plants at Passamaquoddy Bay (Maine/New Brunswick) and in the Soviet Murmansk region emerged in the 1920s and were discussed well into the 1960s. Considering that tidal power had to compete with established energy sources like coal, oil, and conventional hydropower, the longevity of discussions about the two tidal power projects is surprising. Their proponents tapped into questions of energy independence, economic progress, and international cooperation to keep the technology in the race. However, the decade-long negotiations did not result in the construction of major tidal power plants. The technology’s geographical immobility (the plants needed to be constructed where high tides coincided with a suitable coastline) and doubts about economic rationality halted tidal dreams both in the USA and in the USSR.
将潮起潮落的运动转化为电能的愿望有着漫长而曲折的历史。在Passamaquoddy湾(缅因州/新不伦瑞克省)和苏联摩尔曼斯克地区建立潮汐发电厂的建议出现于20世纪20年代,并一直讨论到60年代。考虑到潮汐能必须与煤炭、石油和传统水力发电等现有能源竞争,关于这两个潮汐能项目的讨论持续了很长时间,令人惊讶。他们的支持者利用能源独立、经济进步和国际合作等问题来保持这项技术的竞争优势。然而,长达十年的谈判并没有促成大型潮汐发电厂的建设。这项技术在地理上的不迁移性(工厂需要建在涨潮与合适的海岸线相吻合的地方)和对经济合理性的怀疑阻碍了美国和苏联的潮汐梦想。
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Driving on wood: the Swedish transition to wood gas during World War Two 在木头上开车:第二次世界大战期间瑞典向木质气体的过渡
IF 1.2 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2022.2033387
A. Kaijser
ABSTRACT This article is about the rapid transition to gasifiers in Sweden during World War Two, which made it possible to fuel cars with domestic wood instead of petrol, the imports of which seized during the war. The transition had been prepared in the interwar period and was executed very effectively in the beginning of the war. However, when the war was over and petrol became available again most gasifiers were quickly dismantled. In the concluding discussion, the concepts of head wind and tail wind transitions are introduced to analyze why gasifiers were introduced so rapidly in the beginning of the war, and why they were dismantled just as quickly after the war. It is argued, that the gasifiers were a clear example of a head wind transition, and the gasifier transition is briefly contrasted with two other energy transitions in Sweden that were tail wind transitions: the development of hydropower and of nuclear power.
这篇文章是关于瑞典在第二次世界大战期间迅速过渡到气化炉,这使得用国内木材代替汽油为汽车提供燃料成为可能,汽油在战争期间被进口。这种转变在两次世界大战之间的时期就已经准备好了,并在战争开始时得到了非常有效的执行。然而,当战争结束,汽油再次可用时,大多数气化炉很快被拆除。在最后的讨论中,引入了头风和尾风转换的概念,以分析为什么气化炉在战争开始时如此迅速地被引入,以及为什么它们在战争结束后同样迅速地被拆除。有人认为,气化炉是一个明显的逆风过渡的例子,气化炉的过渡与瑞典的另外两个能源过渡进行了简短的对比,这两个能源过渡是顺风过渡:水电和核电的发展。
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Reassembling colonial infrastructure in Cold War Korea: the Han River Basin Joint Survey Project (1966-71) 冷战时期韩国殖民基础设施的重新组装:汉江流域联合调查项目(1966-71)
IF 1.2 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2021.2009323
Seohyun Park
ABSTRACT This article explores how the Han River Basin Joint Survey Team (HJST), consisting of American and Korean engineers, planned the Han River Basin development project in South Korea during the late 1960s and the early 1970s. While much of the existing literature adopts the lens of Cold War geopolitics, arguing that American political and technical elites drove worldwide river basin development to promote an anti-communist alternative, this article reveals a nuanced picture of localized tensions between the authoritarian regime’s political aspirations and longstanding Cold War and colonial legacies. It shows that development of the Han River Basin was planned based on hydrological data and technical infrastructure produced during Korea’s Japanese colonial era. Moreover, it is impossible to understand HJST’s work without taking into account the political aspirations of the South Korean authoritarian regime.
摘要:本文探讨了20世纪60年代末和70年代初,由美国和韩国工程师组成的汉江流域联合调查队(HJST)是如何规划韩国汉江流域开发项目的。虽然现有的许多文献都采用了冷战地缘政治的视角,认为美国的政治和技术精英推动了全球河流流域的发展,以促进反共的选择,但本文揭示了威权政权的政治愿望与长期冷战和殖民遗产之间局部紧张关系的微妙图景。这表明,汉江流域的开发是以日帝强占时期的水文资料和技术基础设施为基础进行规划的。此外,如果不考虑韩国独裁政权的政治诉求,就不可能理解HJST的工作。
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Modernizing a nation through its radio and television industry: RCA Victor in Chile, 1928-1973 通过广播和电视产业实现国家现代化:智利的RCA Victor, 1928-1973
IF 1.2 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2021.2004008
Francisco Garrido, Ricardo Paredes
ABSTRACT The RCA Victor company in Chile portrayed itself as a participant in the nation’s progress. Its success was part of a larger governmental plan to boost the industrial capacities of the country, during a period marked by political polarization and extensive demographic changes in terms of rural to urban migration, the formation of a working middle class, and greater investment in education. Their electronic devices were intimately linked to this broader socio-political context, where both state and partner industries presented technological production in terms of national pride and progress. Via a material culture analysis and archival sources related to the history and production of RCA Victor in Chile, we show and argue that its technological devices were shaped actively by and participated in the complexities and contradictions of the social and political changes of the era.
智利的RCA Victor公司将自己描绘成国家进步的参与者。它的成功是政府提高国家工业能力的更大计划的一部分,在一个以政治两极分化和广泛的人口变化为特征的时期,从农村到城市的移民,工人中产阶级的形成,以及更多的教育投资。他们的电子设备与更广泛的社会政治背景密切相关,在这种背景下,国家和合作行业都以民族自豪感和进步的方式展示技术生产。通过物质文化分析和与智利RCA Victor的历史和生产相关的档案资料,我们展示并论证了其技术设备是由时代社会和政治变化的复杂性和矛盾所积极塑造并参与的。
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On humble technologies: containers, care, and water infrastructure in northwest Madagascar, 1750s-1960s 关于简陋的技术:集装箱、护理和水基础设施在马达加斯加西北部,1750 - 60年代
IF 1.2 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2021.1999076
Tasha Rijke-Epstein
ABSTRACT Anchored in urban Madagascar, this study probes historical entanglements between water systems, containers as ordinary technological things, and labor regimes from the late eighteenth century through French colonial times (1896–1960). As technologies-in-use, water containers were sometimes materials of governance, but increasingly they were anticipatory technologies through which families could navigate the precarities of monarchal and then colonial rule by storing excess, manipulating time, and sustaining everyday life. While technologies-in-use are always embedded in local moral economies, I argue that they also act on users in sometimes contradictory ways – ossifying labor regimes and entrenching existing practices that navigate everyday predicaments of urban space. Ultimately, this essay calls for historians of technology to attend to the relationships between humble artifacts (containers) and labor practices to understand how practices of care are forged in tandem with the material world.
本研究以马达加斯加的城市为背景,探讨了从18世纪晚期到法国殖民时期(1896-1960)的水系统、作为普通技术物品的容器和劳工制度之间的历史纠缠。作为一种使用中的技术,水容器有时是治理的材料,但它们越来越多地成为一种预期技术,通过它们,家庭可以通过储存多余的水、操纵时间和维持日常生活,来驾驭君主制和后来的殖民统治的不稳定性。虽然使用中的技术总是嵌入在当地的道德经济中,但我认为它们有时也会以矛盾的方式作用于用户——使劳动制度僵化,并巩固现有的实践,以应对城市空间的日常困境。最后,这篇文章呼吁技术历史学家关注卑微的人工制品(容器)和劳动实践之间的关系,以理解护理实践是如何与物质世界一起锻造的。
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‘We were shot down!’: Earth observing satellites, data surveillance, and NASA’s 1982 Global Habitability initiative “我们被击落了!”:地球观测卫星、数据监视和NASA 1982年的全球宜居性倡议
IF 1.2 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2021.1989127
Jenifer Barton
ABSTRACT At a United Nations space conference in 1982, NASA officials unveiled Global Habitability, an Earth science initiative to study the physical, chemical, and biological processes of the world’s lands, oceans, and atmosphere as a single, integrated system using a fleet of Earth observing satellites. A peaceful and timely initiative that focused on global environmental problems and invited international participation, US officials fully anticipated that it would be favourably received. However, the international response to Global Habitability was not merely unfavourable but openly hostile, leading to the initiative’s failure and its almost total obscurity today. This paper explores the history of this unsuccessful initiative to launch a global Earth science research program. Global Habitability was the product of a small group of US scientists who failed to grasp the inherently political nature of data and the importance of the geopolitical context of the 1970s and early 1980s for a scientific and technological research program.
在1982年的联合国空间会议上,美国宇航局官员公布了全球可居住性,这是一项地球科学倡议,旨在利用地球观测卫星舰队将世界陆地、海洋和大气的物理、化学和生物过程作为一个单一的综合系统进行研究。这是一项和平而及时的倡议,关注全球环境问题,并邀请国际社会参与,美国官员充分预料到它会受到欢迎。然而,国际上对全球可居住性的反应不仅是不赞成,而且是公开的敌对,导致了该倡议的失败,今天几乎完全默默无闻。本文探讨了这一发起全球地球科学研究计划的失败的历史。全球宜居性是一小群美国科学家的产物,他们没有把握数据的内在政治性质,也没有把握20世纪70年代和80年代初地缘政治背景对科学和技术研究计划的重要性。
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Uranium exposed at Expo 58: the colonial agenda behind the peaceful atom 第58届世博会曝光的铀:和平原子背后的殖民议程
IF 1.2 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2021.1960074
Dennis Pohl
ABSTRACT This research focuses on the staged contrast between atomic modernity and colonial backwardness at Expo 58 in Brussels, as a strategic promise of the peaceful nuclear, powered by Congolese uranium. I analyze the management of nuclear power – ranging from household technologies to European (post)colonial infrastructures of uranium resources and nuclear power plants – to reveal architecture as a geopolitical technology. The article argues that the ‘domestication of the atom’ goes hand in hand with the domestication of power, exercised through architecture on various levels, affecting the politics of visibility, knowledge, and imagination. The article examines Expo 58 as a case study, where global uranium agents such as the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (UMHK), the US Atomic Energy Commission (USAEC), the Belgian Centre d’Études pour les applications de l’Energie Nucléaire (SKC-CEN), and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) met in a setting that constructed both a Western scientific gaze and colonial backwardness.
摘要本研究聚焦于第58届布鲁塞尔世博会上原子现代化与殖民落后之间的阶段性对比,这是和平核能的战略承诺,由刚果铀提供动力。我分析了核能的管理——从家用技术到欧洲(后)殖民时期的铀资源和核电站的基础设施——以揭示建筑作为一种地缘政治技术。这篇文章认为,“原子的驯化”与权力的驯化密切相关,通过建筑在各个层面上发挥作用,影响着可见性、知识和想象力的政治。这篇文章将第58届世博会作为一个案例研究,全球铀代理机构,如上加丹加联邦部(UMHK)、美国原子能委员会(USAEC)、比利时Études核能能源应用中心(SKC-CEN)和欧洲原子能共同体(Euratom),在一个既构建了西方科学的目光,又构建了殖民落后的环境中会面。
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