Energy for tomorrow : division 2 energy and the environment = Energie demain. Coming hydrogen age: preventing world climatic disruption. World Energy Conference [14, 17-22 Sep. 1989, Montreal].

Scott, David S. Häfele, Wolf.

1989

CIENA
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Over the next decade economic and human disasters will be caused by climatic disruption attributed to greenhouse gases. The public response will assign much responsibility for these disasters to the energy sector. Prudent energy sector leadership should prepare strategies to mitigate or exploit these circunstances. These strategies must be built upon the knowledge that a practical technological pathway exists which can first blunt and then reverse energy sector contributions to greenhouse gas climatic disruption. It is difficult to argue scenarios that do not, in time, make this pathway inevitable. The hydrogen age sits at the end of the pathway. The introduction to this paper describes first the perception and then the reality of energy sector contributions to climate disruption. The perception will probably lead to a non-discriminating attack on the energy sector coupled with the traditional societal reaction: We must do without. Part 1 of the paper presents concepts and principles for assessing and responding to environmental impact. These include the role of process changes vs. collectors, the impact of material flows, and the concept of investive vs consumptive resource use. These principles are subsequently used to develop a better appreciation of how energy sector emissions wil contribute to anticipated climatic change, and the nature of the changes expected. Part 2 discusses the coming hydrogen age using two themes: By describing the underlying principles that will drive the transition to the hydrogen age; and, by characterizing the nature of the age itself...Ver documento. INTRODUCTION. PART 1: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT. Concept: Energy Currencies. Relation between Material and Environment. Investive or Consumptive Use of Material. Efficiency Population. The Greenhouse Effect. On Running Out. Coping or Coherence. Relevance to Business Planning. PART 2: THE HYDROGEN AGE. Technologies Compete, Not Fuels. The Case For Inevitability. Two Transition Waves. Characteristics of the Hydrogen Age. On Predictability. PART 3: INTEGRATED ENERGY SYSTEMS-THE FIRST TRANSITION WAVE. Integrated Systems in Historical Context. Objetives. Desing Principles. The Marriage of HTR and CH. Techniques of Analysis and Optimization. Platform for the Second Wave-Neat-H2 Technologies. PART 4: THE OPPORTUNITY. A Perspective. ABSTRACT. REFERENCES.

GENERAL; CAMBIO CLIMATICO; HIDROGENO; EFECTO INVERNADERO; IMPACTO AMBIENTAL; SECTOR ENERGIA;