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"The Good News About Energy"

Robert Bryce, Energy Tribune Magazine | July 24, 2008

The tendency to use cleaner, lower carbon fuels is gathering speed without mandates or subsidies. ++ Indeed, the necessity to adapt infrastructure and emerging economies' use of whatever their indigenous resources to industrialize means the process will not be quick or smooth; but change is underway. ++ China and India, for instance, still heavily rely on coal, but in the long term, they plan to use more gas and electrify. ++ Besides, gas reserves are still substantial and the momentum behind nuclear energy and renewables is growing.

 

 
Tags: | climate change | renewables | Nuclear | Coal | energy |
 
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