Engineering the Early Demise of Fossil Fuels

A. J. Sangster

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Engineering the Early Demise of Fossil Fuels

A. J. Sangster

Published in International Journal of Sustainable and Green Energy (Volume 3, Issue 6)

Received: 16 October 2014 Accepted: 29 October 2014 Published: 10 November 2014

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Climate change is now scientific fact, and it is equally firmly established that it is of anthropogenic origins, mainly attributed to the burning of fossil fuels. If future generations are to inherit a living, and livable planet, which is self-evidently their right, the current inhabitants have no alternative but to dispense with fossil fuels as a source of power. It is demonstrated here that technically this can clearly be secured before 2050 by transitioning to renewable sources of energy, backed up by ‘clean’ nuclear power. However, effective deployment of these geographically widely dispersed power sources will require power sharing among groups of nations and grid interconnections on a continent spanning basis. It is suggested that effective progress towards the realization of such distributed systems is unlikely to be achieved without cooperative planning and implementation across many nations. An example of this is beginning to emerge in Europe.

Published in	International Journal of Sustainable and Green Energy (Volume 3, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijrse.20140306.11
Page(s)	115-122
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2014. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Climate Change, Population, Renewables, Nuclear Fission, Hydrogen

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