August 2011
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Without carbon capture and storage (CCS) the IEA estimates that the cost of halving emissions will rise by 70%. Perhaps most importantly, is that it helps give, every country and every energy sector, a potential role in reducing emissions. CCS is not the whole solution to climate change, but it has an important role to play as part of a balanced and diversified portfolio. Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, UAE Special Envoy for Energy and Climate Change and Chief Executive of Masdar
This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal, nuclear power, solar energy, and so on. This is fantastical because the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity: it is moral ignorance and weakness of character. We don’t know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the Human beings should only use abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the technology which if the worst case happens abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy. it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely Wendell Berry, American academic, nuclear energy is not in that category. I want cultural and economic critic, an industrial world where people are allowed to and farmer make errors because human creativity has to do with being allowed to make errors. We want an error-friendly environment. Hans-Peter Dßrr, German physicist
Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun. Paul Ehrlich, German scientist and Nobel laureate
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There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance. R. Buckminster Fuller, American engineer, systems theorist and second president of Mensa International, the high IQ society
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