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If you choose to follow any links to the abstract and/or complete text of the item listed below, you will be leaving the Strategian Web site. If you wish to return to this page from the Web page you are sent to, please use the Back option of your browser. Jose Goldemberg, Thomas B. Johansson, Amulya K.N. Reddy, and Robert H. Williams Energy for the New Millennium. (... an analysis by authors who have collaborated for many years. The authors believe that it is important to establish a different way of thinking about energy--different than the growth-oriented, supply-side perspective that focuses on consumption trends and how to expand supplies to meet rising demand, without addressing the mounting environmental impacts and security concerns associated with energy production and use. The authors contend that the focus must not be on energy consumption, but on the end-uses of energy--that is, the tasks that energy performs and the utility it provides to human beings. The enhancement of energy services does not necessarily require expanding supplies. It can also be achieved by using energy more efficiently. The broad strategies needed to steer the present energy system in a more sustainable direction include improving efficiency of energy use to help reduce costs and environmental damage, increasing the contribution of renewable energy sources such as wind, photovoltaics, and modernized biomass, increasing the share of the cleaner and more-efficient fossil fuel technologies in the energy mix, and accelerating development and deployment of new energy technologies such as fuel cells for transportation and power generation, hydrogen, dimethyl ether as a clean cooking fuel, etc. The authors also discuss the challenge of rural energy--of the some two billion people--mostly in rural areas of developing countries--[who] do not have access to affordable modern energy services that could help them break out of cycles of poverty, ill-health and deprivation [see table 1 for some near-, medium-, and long-term technological options for rural energy]. The authors conclude by stating that a tremendous challenge for human society is to move beyond the tangible pressures experienced today and to manage global resources with future generations in mind. The sustainability debate must move to center stage and be accompanied by greatly raised levels of public awareness, information and commitment. Our energy future is a matter of choice rather than business-as-usual destiny. Other keywords and phrases -- acidification, global warming, pollution, solar, sustainable development -- from the text of the article) Ambio Volume 30, Number 6 (September 2001): 330-337. How to find the above journal, magazine, or other publication? See Step 3: Locate of the Information Strategy for details. Questions? Please let me know. |
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