A Non-Implicit Luxury. What ‘Energy Security’ Really Means
A Non-Implicit Luxury. What ‘Energy Security’ Really Means

Summary/Abstract: The developed world lives in comfort, having sufficient electricity, heat and fuel. However, the other four fifths of humanity live either without electricity altogether (almost half of the developing world), or with an irregular electrical power supply. The EU and in fact the entire West have to realize that current comfortable quality of life is unsupportable unless new technologies replace fossil fuels in the nearest decades. Without new sources of electricity (non-coal based) and new types of propulsion (non-oil based) the Western countries will be faced with a simple dilemma: either they will increase the efficiency of their economies (in order to import ever more expensive fossil fuels), or they will have to let go of their requirements necessary for an adequate lifestyle.

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