Vicious Cycle and Breakthrough (The Global Crisis of Human Energy and Its Solutions)

Author: Dong Chongshan
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: Energy science is divided into energy strategic science and energy technological science. Solving humanity's energy problems ultimately relies on energy technological science. However, only energy strategic science can guide the development of energy technology. Based on the facts of energy development history, the author reveals the objective laws of energy development and predicts future trends. By combining the foresight and scientific rigor of strategic research, the author conducts a comprehensive analysis of various factors such as the ease of development and utilization of renewable and non-renewable energy, energy intensity, reserve size, regenerative intensity, cost-effectiveness, and environmental impact. The conclusion drawn is that solar energy will surpass all other energy sources due to its immense energy, strong regenerative and perpetual nature, cleanliness, economic viability, and safety and reliability. Thus, humanity will inevitably enter the solar energy era. The Crisis and Breakthrough: Global Energy Crisis and Solutions is not a study of energy technology; it is a work that elucidates the laws of energy utilization development. Before us is a book on energy strategic science, an innovative scientific research achievement. In this work, Mr. Dong Chongshan proposes a series of important new insights. The author argues that the energy crisis emerging in the 21st century is a global energy crisis. The large amount of heat released and greenhouse gases emitted by human energy use, especially fossil fuels, along with the significant reduction in forest areas, are the three fundamental causes of climate change. In the future, the successful development of methane hydrates and nuclear fusion energy may propel human society into the ice-gas energy era and the nuclear fusion energy era. However, these will merely be transitional phases of energy development. Solar energy will become the ultimate energy source for humanity, and society will inevitably enter the solar energy era. Only by developing and utilizing solar energy can humanity avoid the severe harms caused by the use of various energy sources today and in the future, especially fossil fuels. Only by developing and utilizing solar energy can humanity achieve comprehensive and harmonious development with nature. The energy structure of the future society will be solar energy, electricity, and hydrogen energy. That will be the era of primal energy—solar energy, the era of transitional energy—electricity, and the era of combusting energy—hydrogen energy.