Number: 2007-015-2-100
Title: Future Energy: Improved, sustainable
and clean options for our planet
Task Group
Chairman: Trevor
Letcher
Members: Rubin
Battino and Justin
Salminen
Completion Date: 2008 - project completed
Objective:
The objective is to first consider the reasons for developing alternate
forms of energy and to then detail all the possible forms available
to us. Each chapter will be written by an engineer or scientist, working
in the field. Much of the argument and details of the forms, depend
on environmental and chemical issues.
Description:
Apart from the introductory chapter, the book will be divided
into 22 chapters with each chapter detailing a form of energy that
will be available to us, globally, over the next few decades. The
review will focus on all the types of energy available to us, taking
into account our major problems - reducing our dependence on fossil
fuel, reducing the amount of carbon dioxide we produce and finding
a suitable fuel for our transport system. It is unique in the genre
of books of similar title, currently on sale, in that each chapter
has been written by a scientist or engineer who is an expert in his
or her field. Each chapter highlights the details, scope and problems
associated with a particular type of energy. Included in the book,
are new and emerging forms of energy, such as wave power, tidal energy,
recent developments in battery and fuel cell technology, the hydrogen
economy, tar sands, wind energy, solar (concentrated), solar (photovoltaic),
and geothermal. The old forms of energy are not forgotten and there
will be chapters on the latest improvements in coal burning, oil and
gas burning, oil from coal and methane technology, bio-fuels, carbon
dioxide capture and storage, hydroelectric power, and nuclear fission.
Areas of great potential but not yet come of age, such as pebble bed
nuclear reactors, methane gas hydrates, energy storage and nuclear
fusion , are also dealt with.
Looking at the whole spectrum of options in the book,
we should be able to discern which forms of energy best suite us now
and in the future.
Progress:
draft contents (Oct 2007)
Foreword by Sir David King, Chief Scientific Advisor
to HM Government, Londo, UK
Preface by John O'M Bockris (Texas A&M, Texas USA)
Introduction - Trevor M Letcher and Rubin Battino
FOSSIL FUEL and NUCLEAR ENERGY
1. Future of Oil and Gas Fossil Fuels, possibly by Anthony Goodwin,
Schlumberger, USA
2. Future of Clean Coal by Mustafa Balat, University Mahallesi, Turkey
3. Nuclear Power (Fission) by David Kennedy and Stephen Green, Department
of Trade and Industry, UK
4. Nuclear pebble bed reactors by Dieter Matzner, Centurion South
Africa
5. Oil and Tar Sands, by Farhood Rahnama together with R A Marsh,
Lemoine K Philp and Katherine Elliott, Alberta Energy and Utilities
Board, Calgary, Canada
6. The Future of Methane and Coal to Petrol and Diesel Technology
by Anton C Vosloo, SASOL, South Africa
RENEWABLE ENERGY
7. Wind Energy by Larry Staudt, Dundalk Institute of Technology,
Centre for Renewable Energy, Dundalk, Ireland
8. Tidal Energy by Alan Owen, Centre for Research in Energy and the
Environment , The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland
9. Wave Energy by Raymond Alcorn, University College Cork, Ireland
10. Bio-mass by Pascale Champagne, Queens University, Kingston, Canada
11. Concentrating Solar Power by Robert Pitz-Paal, Deutsches Zentrum
fur Luft-und Raumfahrt, Koln, Germany
12. Hydroelectric Power by Daniel Spreng and Marcus Balmer, ETH Zürich,
Switzerland
13. Geothermal Energy by Joel L Renner, Idaho National Laboratory,
USA
14. Solar, Photovoltaics by David Infield, University of Strathclyde,
Glasgow, Scotland
15. The Hydrogen Economy by Thorsteinn I Sigfusson, University of
Iceland, Iceland
POTENTIALLY IMPORTANT NEW TYPES OF ENERGY
16. Fuel Cells and Batteries by Justin Salminen, University of California,
USA, Daniel Steingard, University of California, USA and Tanja Kallio,
TKK, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
17. Methane Hydrates by Edith Allison, Exploration and Methane Hydrate,
US Department of Energy, Washington, USA
18. Nuclear Fusion by Michael Bradley, University of Saskatchewan,
Canada
NEW ASPECTS TO FUTURE ENERGY USAGE
19. Carbon Capture by Daniel Tondeur, Laboratoires des Sciences du
Génie Chimique - CNRS Nancy, France and Professor Fei Teng,
Technology, Tsingua University, Beijing, China
20. Energy Storage by Peter Hall, University of Strathclyde, Glasglow,
Scotland
21. Smart Energy Houses of the Future - self supporting in energy
and zero emission by Robert Wing, Dept of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
22. The two big questions: "The Prospects for Electricity and
Transport Fuels to 2050" by Geoff Dutton, Engineering Department,
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, UK and Matthew Page,
Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Nov 2008 - Project completed - book titled "Future Energy - Improved, Sustainable and Clean Options for our Planet" published by Elsevier, 2008 [ISBN 978-0-08-054808-1].
Last update: 5 November 2008
<project announcement published
in Chem. Int. 30(2), 2008>
