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SUMMARY:Using energy: Past \, Present and in the Future
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20101018T090000Z
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UID:indico-event-839@indico.ific.uv.es
DESCRIPTION:Todays way of life in the richer countries is based on the use
  of huge amounts of energy in various forms. This energy is coming mostly 
 from the burning of the limited and non renewable oil\, gas and coal reser
 ves.  Most development scenarios for the next decades of our civilization 
 assume that an annual worldwide growth in the resource use of a few % per 
 year is unavoidable.  While it is widely accepted that oil and other resou
 rces are indeed finite\, most international organizations pretend that res
 ource limits will not become a problem during for the next couple of decad
 es. \nHowever\, more and more people start to doubt that the imagined cont
 inuous growth of energy usage can continue for much longer. Such views are
  supported  by actual data which show than many oil and gas rich areas are
  in rapid decline today. Thus\, the idea that worldwide supplies of oil an
 d gas are soon approaching a terminal decline\, which will be followed by 
 similar coal and uranium resource constraints\, is spreading fast. \n    I
 n this talk we will confront  "business as usual"  ideas about the coming 
 decades with the latest data about especially oil and uranium resources an
 d explain why nuclear fusion will always be at least 50 years away. Finall
 y some ideas and imaginations about future civilizations functioning with 
 much less available energy will be outlined.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/
 event/839/
LOCATION:Edf. Institutos de Investigación Sala Seminarios IFIC
URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/839/
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