New energy strategy

The International White Land association unites under its roof scientists,engineers, institutes and enterprises from different countries(Russia,the US, Japan, France,lndia,etc) The White Land association raised a question: is it possible on the basis of modem knowledge of physics and existing modern technologies to build a global energy system which would produce enough energy to satisfy all human needs and, at the same time, provide for a normal coexistence between humankind and Nature? Evaluation of the existing energy system from a holistic planetary perspective made it possible to formulate the following criteria for an energy system. Integrity. An energy system must be integral, i.e. include all stages of power generation and consumption, from production and transportation of fuel to production, transmission and utilization of power and elimination of waste, the latter including the energy system itself which becomes waste after the completion of its life cycle. Efficiency. Net of the amount of power produced, and of the power expended (on extraction of primary material, production, transportation and waste disposal), should be sufficient to satisfy all human energy needs. Safety. An energy system as a whole, and each of its components, should be inherently safe, i.e. no outside impact such as earthquake, explosion, flooding, fire, act of sabotage or human error could, by definition, ever cause unacceptable damage to the environment. Operating reliability. Reliability should be assured by a sufficiently straight forward procedure of interaction between the operator and the power production/consumption system, so that no inordinately high-level training should be required for the personnel. Guaranteed resources. The system should be provided with sufficient fuel and other resources for power production in. amounts necessary to satisfy all human energy needs for a long time to come. Recycling. Used fuel should be repeatedly returned into the energy cycle for reuse until it is completely utilized and has yielded the maximum amount of extractable energy. No-waste. Fuel production, power generation-distribution-utilization and waste recycling should not cause the accumulation of adverse environmental impacts during the system's lifetime, i.e. such energy system should be waste-free. Bio-neutrality. An energy system should not interfere with natural biological cycles involving hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, etc. The sates faction of these criteria is not only desirable, but it is a must; in the past, compromising on standards resulted in the creation of systems which, for fundamental reasons, could not be harmonized with the evolution of civilization. Attempts to build a power system on the basis of promising new inventions and discoveries which have so far not been proven at hardware/process level would only aggravate the situation in today's world, where the majority of the planet's population still heat their homes with firewood and cultivate their plots using most primitive tools while scientists are launching satellites into outer space and producing a few ounces of super-pure isotopes which are otherwise naturally nonexistent. For this reason, we have excluded from evaluation all power-related technologies which have no significant implementation history and which, therefore, require significant capital investment to become meaningful in practical terms. As a result, the scope of existing technologies to be considered as potential energy system options has been reduced to a few which are given below