The Future of Energy beyond Oil and Gas

Authors

Prof. Dr. F. Schüth, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr; Dr. E. Jacob, Emissionskonzepte Motoren, Krailling

Year

2011

Print Info

Fortschritt-Berichte VDI, Reihe 12, Nr. 735

Summary

In the future, energy supply will be characterized by a transition away from the current utilization of fossil primary energy sources. Our current energy supply is based on largely isolated use of various primary energy sources: electricity is largely produced from coal and nuclear power plants, while mobility and heat is covered by oil and natural gas. Climate change calls for more extensive use of non-fossil sources of energy, which, however, due to supply fluctuations depend on intelligent transportation and storage systems. In the future, a broadly diversified energy mix will be required which will have to ensure an efficient meshing of old and new, permanent and fluctuating, fossil and non-fossil sources of energy; this will create the need for a significant improvement in energy storage and transport technologies so that the burden on the environment and the climate can be kept to an absolute minimum.

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