Energy Supply and Demand though the 21~st Century

摘要

Oil glut, low prices and the prodigal and increaisng use of energy are in stark contrast to efforts to control and reduce carbon dioxide emissions to try to mitigate destabilisation of the weather machine. over-optimistic assessment of the potnetial for renewable energy and disaffection with nuclear energy will dash hopes of reducing carbon dioxide emissions unless fiscal instruments such as carbon taxes are introduced and society's attitude to conspicuous energy consumption reversed. By the middle of the next century, oil and probably gas, will be running in short supply and reducing carbon dioxide emissions will have become a stark necessity. 'Clean energy', that is mix of renewable and nuclear energy, will become the way ahead.