Energy for the future

The book examined: The development of the population of the world, the industrialized countries and the developing countries; Resources, reserves, production, consumption and possibilities; Coal, mineral oil, natural gas, oil sands, oil shales, uranium, thorium, nuclear energy, solar energy, biomass; Questions of radioactive radiation; Radiation dose; the Chernobyl accident; Analysis of the primary energy consumption and end use energy consumption from 190 countries and areas of the world. The future primary energy requirement of the industrialized countries and developing countries, the cumulated requirement and the range of the fossil primary energy sources are determined. The probable development of the carbon dioxide emissions is explained; in the same way the computation techniques of the energy recovery time of primary energy conversion systems. (orig.)