#techno-logic

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techno-logic

an extension to the idea of surveillance as a consequence of rationalised bureaucracy; increased surveillance is a consequence of an increasing dependence on computers and machines

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As Hermann Scheer, the father of Germany’s feed-in tariff, often said, the intent of his disruptive law was to fundamentally restructure the German energy industry. Energy technologies, Scheer understood, came with their own “techno-logic.” Coal and gas and nukes and hydro were top-down and centralized, their profits earned by securing and exploiting scarce, expensive fuels. Shifting to renewables isn’t a megawatt-for-megawatt swap between energy sources but a paradigm shift from one techno-logic to another. Renewables encourage smaller scale and decentralization; they reward efficiency over consumption; and they centralize the value at the level of technological development and implementation, thus to exploit free fuels. In a market where small-scale, decentralized renewables thrive, you’ll invariably find angry conventional energy companies. They mastered a game and rigged a market for themselves, and now it doesn’t work quite as favorably for them. (Notice that none of Germany’s big energy giants, even the ones paying those big tariffs, went bankrupt during the solar industry’s heyday.)

Writer Chris Turner explains the differing "techno-logic" associated with renewable and non-renewable energy in his MNN article, 'What have we learned about cheap energy?'. If you're interested, you can read one of Herman Scheer's quotes about the transition to clean energy and its connection with democracy here.

(Photo credit: MNN)