Solar possibilities

Denis Hayes

Energy, 1979, vol. 4, issue 5, 761-768

Abstract: A major energy transition of some kind is inevitable. For rich lands and poor alike, the energy patterns of the past are not prologue to the future. The oil-based societies of the industrial world cannot be sustained and cannot be replicated. The huge increases in oil prices since 1973 virtually guarantee that the Third World will never derive most of its energy from petroleum. Gross world oil production is likely to peak within the next decade; per capita world oil production may have already peaked. The world thus faces an awesome discontinuity in the production and use of energy.

Date: 1979
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DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(79)90009-4

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