Sustainable Fossil Fuels: What is energy sustainability?

摘要: W e frequently hear that our energy system is not sustainable. This certainly sounds right. Our economies, especially those of industrialized countries, are completely dependent on fossil fuels – coal, oil and natural gas. These non-renewable resources we shall exhaust one day, perhaps soon. Fossil provide via combustion in the process release emissions toxic to animals plants. Some these may be changing earth's climate. Indeed, each stage exploration, extraction, processing, transportation consumption has known impacts suspected risks for humans ecosystems. Surely solution wean ourselves quickly off there ready alternatives. We can use much more efficiently. Reduce equally reduce emissions, slowing depletion at same time. increase nuclear power. It negligible virtually inexhaustible. rekindle pre-industrial dependence renewable energy, this time with advanced technologies meet needs information age high quality, reliable energy. In than twenty years I have devoted researching relationship between environment economy first as a graduate student, then combining duties professor, policy advisor five chairing an regulatory agency assumed shift sustainable would entail transition away from fuels.