Abstract
AbstractThe Japanese government has been drawing on the experiences and technologies of European countries to plan out its own development of a more interconnected, digitised society based on renewable energy. However, on the northern island of Hokkaido, local producers and proponents of renewable energy have been using the European models to argue for their own version of local ownership and independence, a trend accelerated by a powerful earthquake that caused a wide blackout in 2018. Biogas producers are notable for creating new digital and multispecies arrangements of sharing excess heat from the production process. These material experiments offer the possibility of speculating about a different energy future that includes the digital while mitigating the abstractions of modern infrastructure.
Funder
Universität Konstanz
University of Bergen
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
University of Stavanger
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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