气候变化与新能源(Climate change and New Energies).pdfVIP

Climate change and New Energies Carlo Rubbia Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Potsdam, Germany CERN, Geneva, Switzerland Beijing_Nov2010 1 Innovation: the key to a successful development ● In order to reconcile sustainable development and economic growth with the threat of environmental decay coherent strategic choices have to be made, relaying on truly innovative scientific and technological developments. ● The huge progress in the fields of Solar, Wind, Biomass and Geothermal energies does not need to be here further discussed. ● In this short presentation some other tentative, novel, new and perhaps less known developments will be briefly described: 1.Energy production from fossils without CO2 emissions, as an alternative to Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS). 2.Recovering the vast amounts of already accumulated CO2 to generate a liquid substitute to Oil. The “Methanol economy”. 3.Unconventional, huge resources of Natural Gas from Clathrates. 4.An almost inexhaustible novel Nuclear Energy from Thorium. Beijing_Nov2010 Slide# : 2 Energy production from fossils without CO emissions 2 Beijing_Nov2010 Slide# : 3 The consequences of Climate Changes are irreversible ● Anthropogenic CO2 and other emissions and their predictable effects on the climate changes are a major concern: it is therefore necessary to develop new solutions for curbing the growing combustion of fossils,and the related CO2 emissions. ● The idea that anthropogenic CO2 releases will affect the climate of the earth for hundreds of