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"E3A: Understanding Energy" || Taken from the Extension website: Reviewed Dec. 2019 || New 4/15/P0D || "Original work created by Montana State University Extension and the University of Wyoming. Adapted with permission by University of Missouri Extension." || 2 pages ; "Nearly all households pay a utility company for electricity on a monthly basis. As discussions of national energy consumption and issues of energy independence become more prevalent, many consumers are considering reducing monthly bills by generating energy themselves. This is typically accomplished by installing a small wind or solar system but can include a host of other technologies as well. Interconnecting a renewable energy generator while connected to a local electrical utility and receiving incremental credit for energy produced is referred to as net metering. Many states have enacted legislation to encourage this practice, so check local laws and utility programs to understand how net metering is applied in your state."--First page.

Societal issues involving policies and publics are generally understudied in research on ocean-based Negative Emission Technologies (NETs), yet will be crucial if novel techniques are ever to function at scale. Public attitudes are vital for emerging technologies: publics influence political mandates, help determine the degree of uptake by market actors, and are key to realizing broader ambitions for robust decision-making and responsible incentivization. Discourses surrounding ocean NETs will also have fundamental effects on how governance for the techniques emerges, shaping how they are defined as an object of governance, who is assigned the authority to govern, and what instruments are deemed appropriate. This Perspective brings together key insights on the societal dimensions of ocean NETs, drawing on existing work on public acceptability, policy assessment, governance, and discourse. Ocean iron fertilization is the only ocean NET on which there exists considerable social science research thus far, and we show that much evidence points against its social desirability. Taken in conjunction with considerable natural science uncertainties, this leads us to question whether further research is actually necessary in order to rule out ocean iron fertilization as an option. For other ocean NETs, there is a need for further research into social dimensions, yet research on analogous technologies shows that ocean interventions will likely evoke strong risk perceptions, and evidence suggests that the majority of ocean NETs may face a greater public acceptability challenge than terrestrial NETs. Ocean NETs also raise complex challenges around governance, which pose questions well-beyond the remit of the natural sciences and engineering. Using a conceptual exploration of the ways in which different types of discourse may shape emerging ocean NETs governance, we show that the very idea of ocean NETs is likely to set the stage for a whole new range of contested futures.

Societal issues involving policies and publics are generally understudied in research on ocean-based Negative Emission Technologies (NETs), yet will be crucial if novel techniques are ever to function at scale. Public attitudes are vital for emerging technologies: publics influence political mandates, help determine the degree of uptake by market actors, and are key to realizing broader ambitions for robust decision-making and responsible incentivization. Discourses surrounding ocean NETs will also have fundamental effects on how governance for the techniques emerges, shaping how they are defined as an object of governance, who is assigned the authority to govern, and what instruments are deemed appropriate. This Perspective brings together key insights on the societal dimensions of ocean NETs, drawing on existing work on public acceptability, policy assessment, governance, and discourse. Ocean iron fertilization is the only ocean NET on which there exists considerable social science research thus far, and we show that much evidence points against its social desirability. Taken in conjunction with considerable natural science uncertainties, this leads us to question whether further research is actually necessary in order to rule out ocean iron fertilization as an option. For other ocean NETs, there is a need for further research into social dimensions, yet research on analogous technologies shows that ocean interventions will likely evoke strong risk perceptions, and evidence suggests that the majority of ocean NETs may face a greater public acceptability challenge than terrestrial NETs. Ocean NETs also raise complex challenges around governance, which pose questions well-beyond the remit of the natural sciences and engineering. Using a conceptual exploration of the ways in which different types of discourse may shape emerging ocean NETs governance, we show that the very idea of ocean NETs is likely to set the stage for a whole new range of contested futures.

In its early days the Internet was thought to be resistant to regulation and censorship. However, the technology of the Internet has developed in a climate of moral responsibility. The support for self‐regulation has taken the initiative from the state and placed it firmly in the grasp of the industry itself. As a result, unprecedented levels of material have been removed from the Net. The dynamic for self‐regulation now frequently outstrips government proposals both in extent and effectiveness.

Résumé Le travail artistique à l'ère d'Internet associe la création d'œuvres interactives à la production de formes de communication et d'exposition visant à impliquer et fidéliser le public. Cet article analyse ces nouvelles figures artistiques et leurs modes relationnels dans un contexte où la mise en œuvre d'art est indissociable de la pratique de médias évolutifs et poreux. À l'intersection de la sociologie des usages et de l'innovation artistique, l'article met en perspective ces formes d'attachement au Net art, révélatrices de nouveaux régimes médiatiques.