A 10 trillion watt 'Big Push' to decarbonize the world's electric power

Title: A 10 trillion watt 'Big Push' to decarbonize the world's electric power
Creator: Mathews, John A.; Tan, Hao
Relation: Journal of Sustainable Energy Engineering Vol. 2, Issue 2, p. 87-100
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.7569/JSEE.2014.629505
Publisher: Scrivener Publishing
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2014
Description: The Nobel laureate Richard Smalley published a famous paper in 2005, just before he died, entitled ‘Future Global Energy Prosperity: The Terawatt Challenge’. In this paper, Smalley contrasted the global energy system in 2004, amounting to a ‘machine’ rated at 14.5 TW, with what would be required by mid-century for a larger population and one that had moved up in its energy expectations. Smalley posed the challenge in terms of energy needed at raised energy levels for a mid-century global population of 10 billion people. He concluded that renewable energy resources including solar, wind and geothermal hold the key to meeting this challenge.
Subject: Renewable energy; water wind and solar; logistic technological dynamics; land requirements
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1066113
Identifier: uon:18009
Identifier: ISSN:2164-6287
Language: eng
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