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  • Wednesday 06/11/2019. Session 2-C: Special Theme 12.2 SE History. “History of Solar Energy Technologies: Colonize Borders, Deserts, Islands, and Extra-Terrestrial Space. The Chilean Case.” Nelson Arellano, UAHC-DETLA. Solar World Congress.

    Wednesday 06/11/2019. Session 2-C: Special Theme 12.2 SE History. “History of Solar Energy Technologies: Colonize Borders, Deserts, Islands, and Extra-Terrestrial Space. The Chilean Case.” Nelson Arellano, UAHC-DETLA. Solar World Congress.

    https://cms.swc2019.org/program?login=true Daily Program Wednesday 06/11 16:30 Session 2-C: Special Theme 12.2 SE History Araucarias 1 Chair: Lawrence Kazmerski – University of Colorado (USA) 16:30 History of Solar Energy Technologies: Colonize…

    Nov 3, 2019
    Dissertations, conferences, speeches., Microhistory, Solar techs
  • 23 de octubre 15:00. “Charles Greeley Abbott y las mediciones del Smithsonian Institute acerca de la radiación solar en el desierto deAtacama (1917-1955)” :: 22 de octubre 16:45 “Ciencia y tecnologías de la energía solar en Revista Caliche. Ensamblajes de saberes fragmentados (1919-1930).”

    23 de octubre 15:00. “Charles Greeley Abbott y las mediciones del Smithsonian Institute acerca de la radiación solar en el desierto deAtacama (1917-1955)” :: 22 de octubre 16:45 “Ciencia y tecnologías de la energía solar en Revista Caliche. Ensamblajes de saberes fragmentados (1919-1930).”

    23 de octubre 15:00. “Charles Greeley Abbott y las mediciones del Smithsonian Institute acerca de la radiación solar en el desierto deAtacama (1917-1955)” Mesa 43 Historia de la Ciencia en Chile:…

    Oct 3, 2019
    Solar techs
  • Workshop Resources, Infrastructures and the Anthropocene: Dialogues between the Global-North and the Global-South. Sep. 18-20, 2019.

    Workshop Resources, Infrastructures and the Anthropocene: Dialogues between the Global-North and the Global-South. Sep. 18-20, 2019.

    Schedule_RIA_workshop Workshop Resources, Infrastructures and the Anthropocene: Dialogues between the Global-North and the Global-South. http://www.eshs.org/Workshop-Resources-Infrastructures-and-the-Anthropocene-Dialogues-between-the.html?lang=en Tuesday 14 May 2019 Organisers Maria Paula Diogo, CIUHCT, FCT, NOVA University of Lisbon M.…

    Sep 24, 2019
    Dissertations, conferences, speeches., Solar techs
  • Volume 93, Issue 2 Summer 2019 , pp. 379-395. “Green Innovation from the Global South: Renewable Energy Patents in Chile, 1877–1910”. Bernardita Escobar Andrae and Nelson Arellano Escudero

    Volume 93, Issue 2 Summer 2019 , pp. 379-395. “Green Innovation from the Global South: Renewable Energy Patents in Chile, 1877–1910”. Bernardita Escobar Andrae and Nelson Arellano Escudero

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S000768051900062X Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2019 Abstract This research note uses the case of nineteenth-century Chile to argue that the phenomenon of early green entrepreneurship…

    Sep 24, 2019
    Publications
  • Solar energy technologies: colonize borders, deserts, islands, and extra-terrestrial space. ASEH 2019. Columbus, Ohio.

    Solar energy technologies: colonize borders, deserts, islands, and extra-terrestrial space. ASEH 2019. Columbus, Ohio.

    American Society for Environmental History. Poster NAE – ASEH 2019 Ohio

    Jun 2, 2019
    Dissertations, conferences, speeches.
  • Industrial solar energy at Atacama Desert between 1933 to 1952: Research, development and sustainability, No 57 (2018). Nelson Arellano-Escudero.

    Industrial solar energy at Atacama Desert between 1933 to 1952: Research, development and sustainability, No 57 (2018). Nelson Arellano-Escudero.

    Nelson Arellano-Escudero Abstract A business archive analysis allows knowing the process of research and development in the saltpeter industry in the middle of the XX century and the incorporation of…

    Aug 24, 2018
    Publications
  • Final activity: “Solar energy technologies: unity and disunity of loose European memories”. European Society for the History of Science Biennial Conference 2018, 14-17 September, London, UK.

    Final activity: “Solar energy technologies: unity and disunity of loose European memories”. European Society for the History of Science Biennial Conference 2018, 14-17 September, London, UK.

    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…

    Jul 11, 2018
    Dissertations, conferences, speeches., Solar techs
  • 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.

    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…

    Jul 11, 2018
    Solar techs
  • “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.”, 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…

    Jul 11, 2018
    Microhistory, Publications, Solar techs
  • THE ATACAMA DESERT AS A LABORATORY: EXPERIMENTS AND SOLAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES (1872-1981)

    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…

    Nov 25, 2017
    Publications
  • XXII Jornadas de Historia de Chile (October) & Knowledge, Culture, Ecologies. [KCE2017] (November).

    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.…

    Oct 3, 2017
    Dissertations, conferences, speeches., Solar techs
  • Presentations 2017. SLAS (Glasgow) ICHST (Rio do Janeiro) & 4S (Boston).

    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…

    May 24, 2017
    Dissertations, conferences, speeches.
  • XIX c. Solar desalination and the chilean press.

    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.…

    Apr 12, 2017
    Solar techs
  • Solar energy imaginary.

    Solar energy imaginary.

    This picture by John Martin at the begining of XIXth century express clearly the new deal in the relationship between Society and Nature. First, we need take a count that…

    Dec 24, 2016
    Visual history of solar tech
  • “The Solar Energy Debate for the Desalination of Water in 1884: Traces of Parallel Speeches.”

    “The Solar Energy Debate for the Desalination of Water in 1884: Traces of Parallel Speeches.”

    Summary Three Anglo-Saxon engineers carried out in 1883 and 1884 a debate about the use of solar energy for the desalination of water while a Chilean one informed to the…

    Dec 24, 2016
    Dissertations, conferences, speeches., Microhistory
  • Dossier History of industrial solar energy desalination in XIXth c.

    Dossier History of industrial solar energy desalination in XIXth c.

    By PhD Nelson Arellano-Escudero +56973923780 :: +34684385905 This dossier consist in: 3 minutes video (Spanish with english subtitles) awarded by Society of History of the Technology (SHOT): http://vimeo.com/channels/shotdissvideo/102264305 Papers (spanish…

    Dec 8, 2016
    Microhistory, Visual history of solar tech
  • History of technology and solar energy.

    History of technology and solar energy.

    This is the excerpt for your very first post.

    Dec 8, 2016
    Dissertations, conferences, speeches.
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Nelson Arellano-Escudero holds a PhD in Sustainability, Technology and Humanism from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona tech). Main Researcher Project Fondecyt 1250560 [2025-2029] “Building a solar country. Changes in the innovation imagineries & Public Policy in Chile (1976-2008)”

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