The future of energy and climate

Multimedia · Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 EDT 2009

OSTI ID:1026352

Steinberger, Jack

The talk will review some of the basic facts about the history and present status of the use of energy and its climatic consequences. It is clear that the world will have to change its way of energy production, the sooner the better. Because of the difficulty of storing electric energy, by far the best energy source for the future is thermal solar from the deserts, with overnight thermal storage. I will give some description of the present status of the technologies involved and end up with a pilot project for Europe and North Africa.

• OSTI ID: 1026352
• Country of Publication: CERN
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
CLIMATE
THERMAL SOLAR
THERMAL STORAGE