Energy Consumption

How should people be provided with energy? The primary energy consumption of the world’s population is currently around one hundred thousand billion kilowatt hours, the number of the world’s population is currently about seven billion people and will exceed after forecasts from the UN over the next four decades gradually the nine billion mark. These are three simple and well known facts, their related in this article will be used to the Plausibilisieren of a difficult question: how should people be provided with energy? The question is not new, can be answered but even without extensive calculations and pull of numerous related topics understandable. The answer complicated, advanced and changed constantly. This was due to recent discoveries of energy sources and technologies developed for their use. The relationship between application and possibility to use the technologies and their consequences and effects for humans and the environment was not always at the beginning sufficiently well known and often it was considered hard and also reluctantly after finding. So began one only globally to consider the consequences of the uncontrolled use of fossil energy, as these already irreparable damage caused, such as warming as a result of the increase of proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The use of nuclear energy was a newer response to energy supply. Here are the well-known consequences, whether it is an accident during operation with the release of radioactive radiation or the disposal or storage of radioactive material, and more.

The use of renewable energy sources seem to indicate a possible way out of this dilemma today. The long term effects of applied technologies in the context of the overall ecological are however not sufficiently known or still not scientifically cables (see the article of wind farms are not zukunftsfahig-in OA). This is primarily for increased use and thus of vital importance and dramatic spread (they have a very small stake in world energy supply) of crucial importance.