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Small-scale nuclear power plant operating
Small-scale nuclear power plant delivering energy only for two cities was put into operation. The production of the energy from this source make the two cities independent on pan-European energy system.
Clean coal technology discovered
Energy industry in number of countries will be still to a large extent based on conventional coal energy. Despite of the fact that coal is the most pollutive fossil fuel, it is still to be the most widely used source of energy ...
A considerable increase in efficiency of renewable resources
An ongoing rapid development of renewable resources of energy results in increase of their efficiency, availability and stability. As a result, some countries start to consider renewable resources as a real alternative to conve...
Severe accident of a nuclear power plant
Although the risk of a severe accident of a nuclear power plant is extremely low, it is still not a zero-risk. In the past, at least two major accidents of nuclear power plants occurred – in Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, w...
Breakthrough in cold fusion leads to renaissance in energy m ...
Suddenly scientists discover the way to do cold fusion which leads to renaissance in energy markets.
National energy grid disappears
Due to new domestic heating and electricity production innovation, households become self-sufficient in energy. Finally, there is no need anymore for national energy grid.
Thanks to algae Australia becomes biggest energy producer in ...
Algae production begins around the world in all available sunny offshore areas, and in many inland bonds and lake areas by 2020’s. Australia becomes the biggest algae biofuel producer in the world. Big companies, small and me...
Algae production is a good way for carbon caption form atmos ...
Algae is, not only a carbon neutral form of biofuel energy production, but also a good way for carbon caption form atmosphere.
Consumption drives market capitalism, not saving, conserving ...
Consumption drives market capitalism, not saving, conserving or sparing
Lack of stability increases in all major oil/gas energy prod ...
Lack of stability and predictability merely increases in all major oil/gas energy producing countries such as Saudi-Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria and Libya.
There are many new serious attempts to utilize new fossil fu ...
The world is strugling with energy safety. There are many new serious attempts to utilize new fossil fuel resources. Prize of oil is Increasing. Contries and energy companies are constantly makeing new discoveries of new fossil...
Algae pathogen suddenly destroys new energy foundation of hu ...
Step by step all human kind becomes dependent on algae biofuel production. Transportation relies almost entirely on algae biofuel, but heating and electricity production rely heavily on it as well. Use of oil goes down. Suddenl...
Terrorists take algae production plants to their main targets
If world energy sector becomes dependent on algae biofuel production, terrorist know how vulnerable algae is for bioterrorism and how dependent many countries of sunny offschores are on their algae production. As oil sector is ...
Global clean water problems solved in dry but sunny offshore ...
Algae production plants in sunny offshore areas become huge industrial areas which produce not only huge quantities of biofuels, but also lots of electricity and clean water from sea water. Global clean water problem is suddenl...
Such as a dirty bomb, would be a big challenge and be both a wild card and a major reorder of the equilibrium. It is such an undesirable thing, no one wants to face the prospect. Europe has never had an active bomb or dirty bo...
Space-based solar panels supply energy to earth
A new technology enables affordable and efficient large space-based solar panels, which by beaming microwaves provide most of the world's energy needs. The energy is clean and renewable, the source is infinite.
Electronic Devices Powered by Body Heat
Small wearable electronic devices such as watches or portable MP3 players can be already powered by body heat. Thermoelectric materials might also be implemented in energy-intensive application fields, which are charactarised b...
Super-efficient power lines with almost zero resistance
Future breakthrough in high-temperature superconductors or carbon nanotubes (CNT) enable loss-less transmission of electrical power. Carbon nanotubes exhibit so-called "ballistic conductivity", which is effectively similar to s...
Intelligent electric power demand and distribution control
Research is underway on “Smart” Electric Power systems where there can be much more management of consumer demand and power distribution
Emission reduction in energy supply chains
Research is underway on ways of achieving substantial reduction of emissions in energy supply chains
Clean, green machines: The advent of the carbon-lite economy
Breakthroughs in alternative energy sources may end fossil fuel dependence. Likely candidates to replace fossil fuel include nuclear (fusion and fission), hydrogen, biomass and other renewables and increased energy efficiency.
Revolutionary breakthrough in storage of energy from renewab ...
One of the most significant shortcomings of renewable sources of energy is their vulnerability, instability and low concentration. This in turn leads to utilization of back-up energy sources and makes the whole process of energ...
The oil crisis in the 1970s demonstrated how serious the impact of a sudden black-out of oil supply on advanced economies can be. As a result, e.g. France oriented its energy sector to be sustained by a nuclear energy. If this ...
The research of thermonuclear fusion has advanced to the extent that the thermonuclear fusion is now started to be utilized as a source of energy production, next to the current nuclear power plants, whose energy production is ...
Smal-scale nuclear power to meet private energy demands
Countries, cities, villages and corporations turn to micro scale nuclear reactors in order to meet the energy demands which are otherwise not reached. The world is running out of oil and it all the time faces more and more stri...
Solarpanel satellites microwave electricity to earth
Due to new unexpected discoveries in solarpanel, satellites, and energy transportation, solarpanel satellites are taken into large scale energy production use. Solarpanel satellites start microwaving to earth 30% of earth's ene...
Sunlight to produce hydrogen from water
Due to breakthroughs in solarpanel technology, large areas from Sahara become reserved for hydrogen production. Solarpanels generate electricity which again is used for separating hydrogen from water.
Saudi-Arabia’s oil reserves get suddenly destroyed
New political group takes over Saudi-Arabia and decides to destroy its oil reserves due to religios and political reasons.
Cheap biofuel from algae replaces oil by 2030
By 2030 algae finally fully replaces oil, not only in transportation, but in all production where black oil used to be used such as plastic, rubber, and electricity production. Oil remains in the energy markets, but due to new ...
Suddenly algae production become the globally accepted and h ...
By mid-2010’s scientists in Europe discover new algae species from Mediterranean Sea which can be used very efficiently and very broadly in biofuel production. Soon after that the scientists discover a new scientific principl...
Russia may cut its gas deliveries to Europe again
Russia is discussing with Ukraine about its debts and the prize of gas. As a side effect of the dispute, Russia may cut its gas deliveries to Europe again.
Eu has decided to obligate oil companies to put ~ 5% biofuel ...
Eu has decided to obligate oil companies to put ~ 5% biofuels to gasoline and to increase this amount in coming future
Richard Brunson says he wants to use only biofuel in his pri ...
Richard Branson says he wants to use only biofuel in his private aeroplanes. Branson is known as a man who walks ahead of his time and makes things to happen.
Capital is flowing to biofuel from algae R&D
Some people are investing their own real money on algae R&D. They must believe on it. An idea of smart consumption society proceeds as people realize that the era of oil is going to end sooner or later, and that we need to do s...
Algae escapes from many sea breading areas and starts to sev ...
Suddenly algae escapes from many sea breading areas around the world at the same time and starts to severally harm all the ocean ecosystems. Fisheries and aquaculture are heavily suffering. Soon it is realized that algae produc...
EU becomes the global energy net exporter by 2030
The problem of solar cells have been their relativelly short lifetime, payback time and costs of establishing a system. The FP 7 project ROBUST DSC is studying and developing Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSC) with long lifetime ...
We enter a society of free energy, true sustainablility and ...
TDSTC progress offers new ways of making contact between string theory and our four dimensional real world in general and cosmology in particular. The objective of TDSTC is to take advantage of this progress and to improve our ...
Attacks (by individual) on energy waste become prevalent, including sabotage, naming-and-shaming and various forms of civil disobedience. This becomes a EU-wide movement and is targeting facilities where energy is unnecessarily...
Growth of European deforestation
Lignocellulosic bioethanol has the potential of contributing to a sustainable and secure European energy supply for the transport sector. European research and industry is presently among the forerunners in developing lignocell...
Thorium is better fission fuel than uranium
There is three times more thorium in nature in comparison to uranium. It is possible to get 40 time more energy from thorium in comparison to equel mass of uranium. Nuclear waste can be used as energy source in thorium reactors...
Germany is turning pro-nuclear force
Angela Merkels CDU won the German parliamentary elections. Immediatelly after the victory CDU declared that they want to expand the use of nuclear force beyond 2032, which used to be the date of ending the use of nuclear force...
Small scale nuclear power to private energy demands
Countries, cities, villages and corporations turn to micro scale nuclear reactors in order to meet the energy demands which are otherwise not reached. The world is running out of oil, and we face all the time more and more stri...
