- Title
- Carbon Old and New: The Australian Agricultural Company, Coal, Wood and the Complexities of Energy Transition in New South Wales, 1825–1847
- Creator
- Cushing, Nancy
- Relation
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies p. 113-137
- Relation
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Part F3221
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51150-9_5
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2024
- Description
- The present urgency of bringing about an energy transitionenergy transition(s) away from fossil fuelsfossil fuels has sent many historians to the past, seeking other periods of change that can provide context for the present and future. What scholars have found is that although we may hope to see clear, smooth and generalisable transitions, the evidence shows that, in Vaclav Smil’s interpretation, they are partial, halting and particular. This chapter examines the first decades of coal mining in the British colony of New South Wales and demonstrates that there was no rush to adopt coal as a fuel in part because of the greater familiarity and ready availability of wood as an alternative. Despite its monopolistic control of the coal industry, the Australian Agricultural Company required patience and persistence to establish a local market for coal.
- Subject
- energy transition; fossil fuels; energy source; Australian Agricultural Company (AACo.)
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1517694
- Identifier
- uon:57163
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783031511509
- Language
- eng
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