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backstop resource

German translation: Backstop-Ressource


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German translation:Backstop-Ressource
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14:54 Feb 28, 2011
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Science - Environment & Ecology
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English term or phrase: backstop resource
Definition from AmosWEB:
A sustainable, renewable natural resource that is used in place of, and as a substitute for, finite, exhaustible natural resources that have been exhausted. A sustainable resource is one in which the amount used today cannot reduce the amount available tomorrow.The best example is solar energy. No matter how much solar energy we use today, the same amount reaches the planet every day in the future. A backstop resource is then a sustainable resource, like solar energy, that society uses after finite resources, like fossil fuels, have been exhausted. In fact, solar energy is often considered THE backstop energy resource. It represents THE "safety net" that's available when fossil fuels are depleted.

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  • The backstop resource is on the flat part of its exploitation curve, so that the price of the resource is blocked and production ceases. mpch mainz
  • The optimal price will “deplete the resource at a rate which smoothly permits the transition from the existing resource to a backstop resource” To Ere is human
  • A backstop resource is one that is available in essentially unlimited quantities - for example, energy produced from fusion, fresh water derived from seawater, and optical fibers made from common sand. Toward a new Iron Age?
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Backstop-Ressource
Definition:
http://www.wirtschaftslexikon24.net/d/backstop-technologie/b...

Backstop-Technologie
auch Auffangtechnologie, Alternativtechnologie. Produktionsverfahren, bei dem auf den Einsatz einer
erschöpflichen Ressource vollständig verzichtet werden kann, indem die erschöpfbare Ressource durch eine unbegrenzt verfügbare Ressource *(Backstop-Ressource)* substituiert wird (z. Backstop-Technologie Substitution von Kernemergie durch Sonnenenergie). In der Modellbildung der Ressourcenökonomik beeinflußt die Berücksichtigung von Backstop-Technologien den optimalen Abbaupfad erschöpfbarer Ressourcen.

oder
http://www.uni-graz.at/fwiwww/home-dt/forsch/wp/wp2009-2.pdf
hier ist überwiegend von Backstop-Technologie die Rede,
es wird aber auch Backstop-Ressource erwähnt.
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Backstop-Ressource


Definition from wirtschaftslexikon24:
http://www.wirtschaftslexikon24.net/d/backstop-technologie/b...

Backstop-Technologie
auch Auffangtechnologie, Alternativtechnologie. Produktionsverfahren, bei dem auf den Einsatz einer
erschöpflichen Ressource vollständig verzichtet werden kann, indem die erschöpfbare Ressource durch eine unbegrenzt verfügbare Ressource *(Backstop-Ressource)* substituiert wird (z. Backstop-Technologie Substitution von Kernemergie durch Sonnenenergie). In der Modellbildung der Ressourcenökonomik beeinflußt die Berücksichtigung von Backstop-Technologien den optimalen Abbaupfad erschöpfbarer Ressourcen.

oder
http://www.uni-graz.at/fwiwww/home-dt/forsch/wp/wp2009-2.pdf
hier ist überwiegend von Backstop-Technologie die Rede,
es wird aber auch Backstop-Ressource erwähnt.

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Joan Hass
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Yes  Marga Shaw: ME die bestmöliche Antwort. Die Diskussionsbeiträge oben bringen nicht viel Neues hierzu.
3 days1 hr
  -> Thanks Marga ist nun mal so dass die engl. Termini Einzug in die anderen Sprachen halten, mit Erklärung , aber die ist selten so prägnat, wie der engl. Begriff

Yes  mrmp: In Anl. an d. erstgen. link und http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2005/2346/pdf/Entoek... etc. könnte man noch "Substitutionsressource" vorschl., Backstop-Ressource ist m.E. aber unmissverständlicher, d.andere viell. allg'verständlicher
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