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PRAGMATIC OVERVIEW OF THE WORLD ENERGY CHALLENGE LONG TERM PERSPECTIVES
Filipe WILTGEN1
New technologies and social changes
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 2 (117) 2023, Publication date: 30 June 2023
Keywords: Energy; Electricity; Nuclear Fusion; Magnetic Confinement; Tokamak
Abstract This paper broadly discusses the world's energy challenge seen in a panoramic and pragmatic way with long-term perspectives observing types of current and future existing energy sources, in addition to viable and efficient forms of energy storage. Future sustainable development depends on human capacity to forcefully carry out current energy exploration. All human efforts tend to converge towards finding a sustainable way of producing or converting energy that allows for easy access, simple use, low production cost and, above all, low environmental impact. It is a known fact that there is a strong human relationship with electricity and its daily benefits in education, health, food, thermal comfort and home security. Therefore, research almost always converges on thermodynamic forms of energy for production of electricity, even if in way extra transformations of forms of energy (mechanical, chemical and physical) are necessary. This paper presents current options and a vision of the future of energy in the world, assuming success in future generation investments via nuclear fusion, in addition to promising new forms of long-term energy storage. Both aiming to find a way to guarantee development of humanity in the future
Faculty of Technology of the State of São Paulo - FATEC Pindamonhangaba and Cruzeiro, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of the State of São Paulo - IFSP Campinas and University of Taubaté - UNITAU Taubaté, Brazil
ORCID: 0000-0002-2364-5157
E-mail: ProfWiltgen@gmail.com Filipe.Wiltgen@ifsp.edu.br