Major roles for fossil fuels in an environmentally constrained world
Autor(es): Robert H. Williams
Palavras-Chave: Energy; Innovations technology; Fossil fuels
Notas: Radical innovations for energy technology will be required during the early decades of this century in order to deal effectively with the challenges of: · climate change associated with the atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases in conjunction with fossil fuel production and use, · energy supply insecurity concerns associated with the concentration of remaining low-cost oil resources in the politically volatile Middle East, and · the environmental damages caused by air pollutionespecially damages to human health from small particle (< 2.5 µ) air pollution arising both from direct emissions of small particles and from the formation of small sulfate and nitrate particles in the atmosphere from gaseous precursor emissions of SO2 and NOx.
