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Melsted, O. (2025). Between Pushback and Collaboration: The Oil Industry and the Challenges of Environmentalism and Resource Scarcity, 1970s–1980s. In S. Bott, S. Pitteloud, & J. M. Schaufelbuehl (Eds.), Environmental Regulation and the History of Capitalism: The Role of Business from Stockholm 1972 to the Climate Crisis (pp. 46-63). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003515494_4
Melsted, O. (2024). Das Unsichtbare in der Elektrizitätsgeschichte: Zu Stromzählern und Wasserkraftemotionen. NTM, 32(4), 503-508. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00048-024-00401-5
Melsted, O. (2024). Geoscience spillover: Gunnar Böðvarsson and the adoption of petroleum technologies in Iceland's geothermal industry, 1940s-1970s. History and technology, 40(3), 218-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/07341512.2024.2408055
Gross, R., Melsted, O., & Chacherau, N. (2023). Creating the conditions for Western European petroculture: The Marshall Plan, the politics of the OEEC, and the transition from coal to oil. Journal of Energy History, 10. http://energyhistory.eu/en/node/345
Melsted, O. (2022). Eliminating fossil fuels: Iceland's transition from coal and oil to geothermal district heating, 1930-1980. History and technology, 37(4), 527-547. https://doi.org/10.1080/07341512.2022.2033386
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