Daniel M Kammen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 164283 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Daniel M Kammen |
| PRENOMES | Daniel M |
| SOBRENOME | Kammen |
| ASSINATURA | KAMMEN D M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2984-7777 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 72 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 214 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Dimensions and distribution of household energy insecurity in the United States
High-resolution data to detect meteorological sensitivity of health facilities’ electricity systems in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Reliable electricity is essential for healthcare delivery, particularly in resource-constrained settings vulnerable to weather extremes. This study investigated the associations between temperature extremes and precipitation anomalies and power quality and reliability (PQR) in 24 healthcare facilities across North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Using high-frequency sensor data and satellite-derived climate indices from May 2022 to Octobe…
Exploring offshore wind’s potential to enhance energy security in nations with limited land and fuel resources
Offshore wind (OSW) power is critical to addressing energy security issues in nations with limited land and fuel resources. This study aims to assess the quality of OSW resources with high temporal and spatial resolution and to elucidate the economically feasible deployment of OSW using advanced power system models with Japan as a case study. First, comprehensive evaluations of OSW resources were performed by integrating a geographic information …
Experimental and ethnographic evidence on household-based lockboxes and savings nudges from rural Tanzania
From the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the battlefield of the future
The geopolitical significance of critical minerals and rare earth elements has intensified in the context of global energy transitions and shifting power dynamics. This article examines how Russia's invasion of Ukraine can be understood through the lens of adaptive resource geopolitics, wherein control over strategic minerals – such as graphite, lithium, titanium, and rare earth elements – has become a crucial factor in the conflict. While tradit…
Then electricity theft would end, nobody loves stealing”
Despite generally high rates of grid connectivity in African cities, electricity access among users in informal settlements remains heavily constrained. This study explores the challenges that restrict electricity access and use across 25 informal settlements in Kampala, Uganda using a mixed-methods participatory action research (PAR) approach conducted by an inter- and transdisciplinary team. We find that the high cost of electricity, a complex …
End of term for Daniel Kammen, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Research Letters
The role of hydrogen as long-duration energy storage and as an international energy carrier for electricity sector decarbonization
With countries and economies around the globe increasingly relying on non-dispatchable variable renewable energy (VRE), the need for effective energy storage and international carriers of low-carbon energy has intensified. This study delves into hydrogen’s prospective, multifaceted contribution to decarbonizing the electricity sector, with emphasis on its utilization as a scalable technology for long-duration energy storage and as an internationa…
From powerpoint to powerplant
In the Sunnylands statement, China and the U.S. committed to supporting efforts toward a global tripling of renewable energy by 2030. Despite unprecedented recent renewable energy growth, the world is currently off track by a substantial margin: 3,432 GW in 2030, a lacuna roughly equal to the world’s combined renewables capacity in 2022. Closing this gap requires vastly increased ambition and cooperation. The U.S. would need to significantly rais…
Pervasive over-crediting from cookstove offset methodologies
Evaluation of the preference for and viability of clean cookstove adoption in rural Tanzania
Why what happened to Oppenheimer then is relevant now
A renewable energy scientist who resigned from his position during the Trump Administration contemplates the similarities—and differences—between his situation and what happened to Oppenheimer in the 1950s during the McCarthy era
Reply to
The value of community technology workers for LPG use
Equal goods, but inequitable capabilities? A gender-differentiated study of off-grid solar energy in rural Tanzania
Women and low-income households experience a disproportionate burden of energy poverty and have different capabilities to utilize access to energy. Despite this, many electrification plans insufficiently address gender and low-income households. Off-grid solar has and will continue to play a role in expanding access to electricity in rural Sub-Saharan Africa; however, off-grid solar is rarely examined across gender. We draw on a quantitative surv…
A quantitative, equitable framework for urban transportation electrification
Urban structure and its implication of heat stress by using remote sensing and simulation tool
What’s in a stove? A review of the user preferences in improved stove designs
2.9 Billion people lack access to secure and affordable clean cooking fuels and technologies. Numerous studies and initiatives have attempted to design and implement more efficient stoves, but often these efforts fail as the combination of stove design, fuel access, or management issues does not meet the cook’s needs or preferences. This review analyzes the stove functions, characteristics, or features that households value in their cook stove. F…
Joint strategic energy and river basin planning to reduce dam impacts on rivers in Myanmar
Tackling climate change and human development challenges will require major global investments in renewable energy systems, including possibly into large hydropower. Despite well-known impacts of hydropower dams, most renewable energy assessments neither account for externalities of hydropower nor evaluate possible strategic alternatives. Here we demonstrate how integrating energy systems modeling and strategic hydropower planning can resolve con…
Near-real-time monitoring of global CO2 emissions reveals the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting human activities, and in turn energy use and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions. Here we present daily estimates of country-level CO 2 emissions for different sectors based on near-real-time activity data. The key result is an abrupt 8.8% decrease in global CO 2 emissions (−1551 Mt CO 2 ) in the first half of 2020 compared to the same period in 2019. The magnitude of this decrease is larger than during previous ec…
Over the hump
Recent news reports have focused on the so-called collapse of coal, which indeed is in free-fall in many nations. And it’s not limited to the news media; an International Energy Agency report said “... Only renewables are holding up during the previously unheard-of slump in electricity use.” Coal use is down to record low-levels in the United States. This decrease is also underway for oil and natural gas. Meanwhile, new solar and wind projects ar…
Evaluating cross-sectoral impacts of climate change and adaptations on the energy-water nexus
Electricity and water systems are inextricably linked through water demands for energy generation, and through energy demands for using, moving, and treating water and wastewater. Climate change may stress these interdependencies, together referred to as the energy-water nexus, by reducing water availability for hydropower generation and by increasing irrigation and electricity demand for groundwater pumping, among other feedbacks. Further, many …
Mining Plastic
Recalibrating climate prospects
IPCC’s 2018 Special Report is a stark and bracing reminder of climate threats. Yet literature, reportage, and public discourse reflect imbalanced risk and opportunity. Climate science often understates changes’ speed and nonlinearity, but Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) and similar studies often understate realistic mitigation options. Since ∼2010, global mitigation of fossil CO 2 —including by often-uncounted modern renewable heat comparable…
Techno–ecological synergies of solar energy for global sustainability
From Linear Fuel Switching to Multiple Cooking Strategies
Community-Based Electric Micro-Grids Can Contribute to Rural Development
Disparities in rooftop photovoltaics deployment in the United States by race and ethnicity
Energy access scenarios to 2030 for the power sector in sub-Saharan Africa
Vernacular Models of Development
Towards an Integrated Framework for Development and Environment Policy
An energy vision
National trajectories of carbon emissions
Pervasive over-crediting from cookstove offset methodologies
Equal goods, but inequitable capabilities? A gender-differentiated study of off-grid solar energy in rural Tanzania
Women and low-income households experience a disproportionate burden of energy poverty and have different capabilities to utilize access to energy. Despite this, many electrification plans insufficiently address gender and low-income households. Off-grid solar has and will continue to play a role in expanding access to electricity in rural Sub-Saharan Africa; however, off-grid solar is rarely examined across gender. We draw on a quantitative surv…
Techno–ecological synergies of solar energy for global sustainability
From the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the battlefield of the future
The geopolitical significance of critical minerals and rare earth elements has intensified in the context of global energy transitions and shifting power dynamics. This article examines how Russia's invasion of Ukraine can be understood through the lens of adaptive resource geopolitics, wherein control over strategic minerals – such as graphite, lithium, titanium, and rare earth elements – has become a crucial factor in the conflict. While tradit…
Then electricity theft would end, nobody loves stealing”
Despite generally high rates of grid connectivity in African cities, electricity access among users in informal settlements remains heavily constrained. This study explores the challenges that restrict electricity access and use across 25 informal settlements in Kampala, Uganda using a mixed-methods participatory action research (PAR) approach conducted by an inter- and transdisciplinary team. We find that the high cost of electricity, a complex …
Countercyclical energy and climate policy for the U.S
Continuation of the U.S.’s historical pattern addressing energy problems only in times of crisis is unlikely to catalyze a transition to an energy system with fewer adverse social impacts. Instead, the U.S. needs to bolster support for energy innovation when the perceived urgency of energy‐related problems appears to be receding. Because of the lags involved in both the energy system and the climate system, decarbonizing the economy will require …
The Epistemology of Sustainable Resource Use
This study examines the moral ecology of resource use through a comparison of the ideological bases of three systems of resource use in Southeast Asia: gathering forest products (viz., forest fruit), swidden agriculture, and the cultivation of high-yielding variety, green revolution crops. A trade-off between the magnitude of return and the frequency of return is accepted in the first two systems, but this is denied in the third system in which t…
National trajectories of carbon emissions
Should We Risk It
How dangerous is smoking? What are the risks of nuclear power or of climate change? What are the chances of dying on an airplane? More importantly, how do we use this information once we have it? The demand for risk analysts who are able to answer such questions has grown exponentially in recent years. Yet programs to train these analysts have not kept pace. In this book, Daniel Kammen and David Hassenzahl address that problem. They draw together…
From Linear Fuel Switching to Multiple Cooking Strategies
Towards an Integrated Framework for Development and Environment Policy
Vernacular Models of Development
Ethanol Can Contribute to Energy and Environmental Goals
To study the potential effects of increased biofuel use, we evaluated six representative analyses of fuel ethanol. Studies that reported negative net energy incorrectly ignored coproducts and used some obsolete data. All studies indicated that current corn ethanol technologies are much less petroleum-intensive than gasoline but have greenhouse gas emissions similar to those of gasoline. However, many important environmental effects of biofuel pro…
The need and challenge for Environmental Research Letters
Why another journal? This is the inevitable question that every effort to launch a new journal must, and should, address. A common statistic in the business world is that nine out of ten new restaurants fail. In the academic world something similar, but less definitive, can happen: a potentially interesting, but practically flawed, effort can be launched, never truly build an intellectual community, but then continue as a sub-critical, little-kno…
Possibility and potential of clean development mechanisms in China
China has become the world's second largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter behind the United States. It emits approximately three billion tons of CO2 equivalents every year. Its growing economy and large population are making a wealthier, more consumption-oriented country. Energy demand is expected to grow 5–10% per year through 2030. Therefore, a large potential of GHG emission reduction in China can be expected. The clean development mechanism (C…
An innovation and policy agenda for commercially competitive plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) can use both grid-supplied electricity and liquid fuels. We show that under recent conditions, millions of PHEVs could have charged economically in California during both peak and off-peak hours even with modest gasoline prices and real-time electricity pricing. Special electricity rate tariffs already in place for electric vehicles could successfully render on-peak charging uneconomical and off-peak charg…
Celebrating one year of Environmental Research Letters
The one-year anniversary is a critical milestone for a new journal. At that point there are enough articles published to begin to define the scope and readership, yet generally not enough of a track-record for the full community to regard the new entrant as a fixture and a source of 'must read' material. Environmental Research Letters (ERL) has set itself a particularly large and interesting challenge: to help connect the vast community of enviro…
Addendum to ‘An innovation and policy agenda for commercially competitive plug-in hybrid electric vehicles’
This addendum adds to the analysis of 'An innovation and policy agenda for commercially competitive plug-in hybrid electric vehicles' (D M Lemoine et al 2008 Environ. Res. Lett. 3 014003) to the case of all-electric vehicles (EVs). We pay particular attention to grid impacts, break-even battery costs, and the three ways in which EVs could dramatically change the results we obtained for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs)
Dialog on Science and Policy to Address the Climate Crisis to conclude the International Association of Research Universities Climate Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark
This is not the usual Editor-in-Chief letter, namely one that focuses on the accomplishments of the journal—and for ERL they have been numerous this year—but a recognition of the critical time that we are now in when it comes to addressing not only global climate change, but also the dialog between science and politics. In recognition of the many 'tipping points' that we now confront—ideally some of them positive social moments—as well as the cle…
Molasses for ethanol
Many biofuel standards, including California's recently adopted low carbon fuel standard, consider just one feedstock from one supplying country for the production of sugarcane ethanol: fresh mill-pressed cane juice from a Brazilian factory. While cane juice is the dominant feedstock for ethanol in most Brazilian factories, a large number of producers in Indonesia, India, and the Caribbean, and a significant number in Brazil, manufacture most of …
Community-Based Electric Micro-Grids Can Contribute to Rural Development
Putting renewables and energy efficiency to work
Accounting for the water impacts of ethanol production
Biofuels account for 1â 2% of global transportation fuel and their share is projected to continue rising, with potentially serious consequences for water resources. However, current literature does not present sufficient spatial resolution to characterize this localized effect. We used a coupled agro-climatic and life cycle assessment model to estimate the water resource impacts of bioenergy expansion scenarios at a county-level resolution. The s…
Quantifying Carbon Footprint Reduction Opportunities for U.S. Households and Communities
Carbon management is of increasing interest to individuals, households, and communities. In order to effectively assess and manage their climate impacts, individuals need information on the financial and greenhouse gas benefits of effective mitigation opportunities. We use consumption-based life cycle accounting techniques to quantify the carbon footprints of typical U.S. households in 28 cities for 6 household sizes and 12 income brackets. The m…
Reduce growth rate of light-duty vehicle travel to meet 2050 global climate goals
Strong policies to constrain increasing global use of light-duty vehicles (cars and light trucks) should complement fuel efficiency and carbon intensity improvements in order to meet international greenhouse gas emission and climate targets for the year 2050
Energy access scenarios to 2030 for the power sector in sub-Saharan Africa
Life cycle analysis of distributed concentrating solar combined heat and power
We report on life cycle assessment (LCA) of the economics, global warming potential and water (both for desalination and water use in operation) for a distributed concentrating solar combined heat and power (DCS-CHP) system. Detailed simulation of system performance across 1020 sites in the US combined with a sensible cost allocation scheme informs this LCA. We forecast a levelized cost of $0.25 kWh ^−1 electricity and $0.03 kWh ^−1 thermal, for …
Clean energy deployment
New methods are needed to accelerate clean energy policy adoption. To that end, this study proposes an innovative financing scheme for renewable and energy efficiency deployment. Financing barriers represent a notable obstacle for energy improvements and this is particularly the case for low income households. Implementing a policy such as PACE—property assessed clean energy—allows for the provision of upfront funds for residential property owner…
A household carbon footprint calculator for islands
An energy vision
Complexity and interdisciplinary approaches to environmental research
The launch of volume 8 of Environmental Research Letters (ERL) comes at a critical time in terms of innovations and exciting areas of science, but particularly in the areas linking environmental research and action. The most recent climate change Conference of the Parties meeting (COP), in Doha in December 2012, has now come and gone. As has been dissected in the press, very little was accomplished. Some will see this as a failure, as I do, and o…
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