Bibliographic record
Abstract
The energy supply system of today is one of the biggest and most complex physical systems humanity has ever built.As this book will show, it is not only a highly sophisticated physical machine, but also a complex world, including energy trading, regulation, societal effects, geopolitical strategy, climate change, and international security.For successful management, these worlds cannot be treated in an isolated manner.Instead, the energy supply disciplines have to be seen not only within the scope of their individual disciplines, but also, and almost especially, in their current interactions and interdependencies within the energy system as a whole.We are grateful for the many lessons we have been honored to learn from our authors from all over the world.The perspectives and knowledge shared within this book span four continents, including experts from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, India, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, and the US.The course of this book has taught us, the editors, the true scale of the current global energy supply system.Modern energy supply is as interdisciplinary as it is international.Each region and country have their own starting position and boundaries with regards to their energy provision and the energy transition.Changing a parameter in one country will likely affect in some way the global energy system as a whole.Connected physical systems have no political boarders.Hence, where a policy or a change in energy export and import strategies might seem successful when regarding it from an isolated national perspective, the global perspective might differ.This book invites you, the readers, to join us on a journey, across professional disciplines, responsibilities, and continents, to explore the facets, key components, and motivations of the energy supply system of today.It also shows the many different perspectives that need to be accounted for when working in the energy sector.Despite the many and sometimes contradictory perspectives, we found all authors clearly united in one: The true passion and compassion for their topic and their genuine care to make the energy system work.It is this spirit that we would like to pass on to you, our readers. The Energy System: More Than Just ElectricsIn the industrialized world of today, a high security of energy supply has practically become taken for granted by most citizens, economies, nations, and regions alike.Accordingly, and at a first glance, the world of energy supply may appear as a largely homogeneous sector-an industry based on tried-and-tested structures and processes, that have been developed over decades, seamlessly providing services on a mostly even keel.But is this initial impression of simplicity and unity possibly deceptive?Are the protagonists in the energy sector perhaps not always speaking the same language?Can it be assumed that they share the same understanding of the system at hand?Similar to other industries, a closer look at the energy sector reveals that it consists of two almost parallel worlds.The first is the world of physics, technology, and technical
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.270 | 0.230 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".