Energy Revolution. Solutions for limited reserves, political independence and climatic change

The Netherlands are 95% dependent on fossil fuels. Off-the-shelf solutions for clean energy supply are already available. In the first part, The Trap ('De Fuik'), the author analyses the three problems that necessitate an energy revolution: failing production of fossil fuels, the greenhouse gas effect and the risk of political dependency on energy-rich states such as Russia. the second part, The Palette ('Het Palet'), provides an overview of options ad types of (sustainable) energy: wind energy, electricity from manure, nuclear energy, electricity from fresh or salt water, solar energy and organic fuels. Attention is paid to what experts have to say about it, the advocates and opponents and how things work, what costs are involved and how much it yields and the burden to the environment. Part three, Patchwork ('Lappendekens'), is devoted to various future scenarios of the International Energy Agency, Greenpeace, the Institution of Engineers in the Netherlands and the German aerospace Center. One expects a rise in energy consumption, whereas another assumes a decrease. One party is practically-oriented whereas the other wants to promote access to energy as a civil right.(mk)