Since at least the 1970s, after the first oil embargo, some historians focused on energy. After this, scholarship on energy studies has developed and matured through analyses ranging from fine-grained studies of specific energy sources and technologies to ambitious broad surveys of energy across history, for example, Vaclav Smil, Energy in World History (1994). This historical interest at least…
Coming soon: TECHNOLOGICAL DRIVE FROM PAST TO FUTURE ? 50 YEARS OF ICOHTEC. Turns in the Energy Supply: Past, Present and Future. The 45th ICOHTEC Symposium 17 – 21 July 2018, Jean Monnet University Saint-Étienne, France.
Energy, Desalination and Solar Ponds: Success and Oblivion of Salts and Solar Power in Atacama Desert, Chile and Beyond, 1907-1981 Dr. Nelson Arellano Thermosolar artifacts were used in large scale since 1872 when Charles Wilson invented the first desalting apparatus in Atacama Desert. After this, different places as Wendover (Utah, USA), Patmos (Greece), Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) developed research, planning,…
“Parallel research of the solar power in the 1970 decade: MIT, University of Barcelona, CORFO and Batelle Institute.”, Quaderns d’Història de l’Enginyeria, volum XVI, 2018, p. 261-276.
PARALLEL RESEARCH OF THE SOLAR POWER IN THE 1970 DECADE: MIT, UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA, CORFO AND BATELLE INSTITUTE Dr. Nelson Arellano-Escudero The oil embargo could have been incidence for the revitalization of research and development of solar energy technologies circa 1978. Nevertheless, it seems not have been recognized or keep back memories of the previous achievements since the XIX…
THE ATACAMA DESERT AS A LABORATORY: EXPERIMENTS AND SOLAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES (1872-1981)
Abstract The idea of a geographic space as a laboratory has been recently proposed and treated extensively. This openness in the conceptual imaginary allows exploring new meanings to places usually restricted to the condition of exploitation or extraction of resources. In a divergent sense, the case of the Atacama Desert is analyzed here as a territorial space…
XXII Jornadas de Historia de Chile (October) & Knowledge, Culture, Ecologies. [KCE2017] (November).
P29 Making energy futures: tools and practices constructing the long-term Olivier Ejderyan, TdLab, ETH Zurich Switzerland & Carla Alvial, NUMIES, UDP Solar energy technologies (SET): when the future never comes. SET are always in the future, at least, since 1872. For instance, solar energy for desalted water seems to achieve their aims several times, although…
Presentations 2017. SLAS (Glasgow) ICHST (Rio do Janeiro) & 4S (Boston).
Solar energy history: Stories worth spread. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/research/politics/slas2017/ Influencia de la ingeniería británica en las tecnologías de la energía solar en Chile (1872- 1970) Nelson Arellano Ph D. La ingeniería, parafraseando a Daniel Headrick, constituyó una herramienta del imperio británico en su presencia en Sudamérica desde el siglo XIX. Tres ingenieros británicos resultan relevantes para la historia de…
XIX c. Solar desalination and the chilean press.
Santiago de Chile, April 10, 2017. An interview was published by “El Ciudadano”, on line journal, spreading results and work in progress about the research focused on solar energy technologies. The whole interview is available, in spanish language, here. And a video by ALADYR Seminar 2012 here.
