Presentations on Global Energy Demand in Transition: Informal Notes

Abstract

The Global Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization for global issues and frontier problems in science, organized this conference to explore the technological prospects and long term availability of environmentally benign energy sources for generating electricity, in the expectation that such an exploration would be useful to the governments in formulating energy policies and to the public utilities for their long term planning. The specific objectives of the Conference were to:

• 1) assess the increase and diversification in the use of electricity

• 2) assess technological prospects for clean energy sources

• 3) assess the roles of nonmarket forces

• 4) make concrete recommendations

• 5) study cost impact and national security implications

• 6) provide analysis of transition from fossil to electrical transportation

• 7) assess the role of nuclear energy, and

• 8) optimize use of plutonium and HEU from dismantled warheads.