by
Prof.Walter Blum(Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)
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Europe/Berlin
Description
Primary energy usage and electricity production are described under
the aspect of carbon dioxide emissions, along the lines of a study we
made in the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Given the necessity
of CO2 reductions I focus first on the renewable CO2-free sources and
their peculiarities, then on the reductions on the consumer side. The
role of nuclear energy in Germany and the world will be discussed as
well as some of the German politics aiming at climate protection. The
other greenhouse gases apart from CO2 play a role in the reduction
scenarios important for the political goals. An astonishing amount of
wishful thinking is recognizable once one takes a quantitative
approach. The presentation ends with a look into the future beyond
2020, and I will describe my hopes for a development towards the
middle of the century.
