Vision of the Future: The Global Energy Perspective / Energy (ePub)

VISION OF THE FUTURE

A Global Energy Perspective

• Future Oil Crisis
• Potential Solutions
• Likely outcomes
• Different forms of energy systems

Are you interested in shaping the future long into the second half of the 21st century?

This book will clarify several problems at once. What is viable and what is not on a grander, strategic energy level. It will reveal the probable future of energy. We consider the evidence of resource depletion; potential solutions, challenges we face in implementing the solutions; and outline 3 possible energy economies, that will be mixed to hopefully solve the loss of economically available fossil fuels.

The book covers the following topics:

Resource Expiration & the Exponential Problem

EROIE and the dominance of Oil based fuels

Potential Solutions to the loss of Oil

Implication of Failing to find a solution

Behavioral Solutions

Climate Change - What does it teach us about transition

Why is the Media NOT highlighting the coming oil crisis?

The book will challenge many of your long-held beliefs. For example, many people who have read this book, have commented that they believed that 'exponential growth' was commonly understood as rapid growth. This is in fact incorrect. Exponential growth as we shall note, can be applied to anything that has a doubling time. Every percentage rise undergoes exponential growth. When we apply this to consumption rates it seriously undermines the belief that many people have that oil will last forever, or for thousands of years.

The book will also look at subjects such as Net Energy, which is based upon Energy Return on Investment of Energy. If you don't understand this, consider coal mining. We must use energy to extract energy. Most of that energy is from oil or secondary sources such as electricity (often generated by burning different kinds of fossil fuels like gas, or hydroelectricity, etc., etc.) Net Energy tells us the likely possibility of maintaining civilization in the face of using more resources to extract resources to meet our energy demands.

How difficult it is to replace fossil fuels and what is required to do so, over the next 50 years just with oil. This book examines 3 types of energy economies, each with a different slant. These economies represent potential models of future development.

We analyze and understand how energy systems can be measured. This kind of economic and civilization viable assessments are not taught at the university.

This book is an introduction to The Energy of the Future book.