Marine Energy task force with 2020 vision

摘要

When Foresight, the UK government programme to clarify important pointers for industry and research, was announced in 1993 there was still an expecation that hydrocarbons would eventually be in short supply. But when its Marine Panel set the Energies from the Sea Task Force ot work last year, the world was awash with relatively cheap oil and gas and there was more concern about the global warming that burning it up could create, reports Judith Mirzoeff.