SciDevNet: Energy research in academic journals is skewed towards big, pricey tech projects and Western scientists' agendas, researchers have said. This means that simpler technologies and social research into behaviour that could empower the poor and address their challenges are being overlooked.
This follows a recent ongoing debate on the pages of Nature after Benjamin Sovacool, director of the Centre for Energy Technologies at Aarhus University, Denmark, wrote in July about the results of his study on...