eprintid: 4673 rev_number: 8 eprint_status: archive userid: 351 dir: disk0/00/00/46/73 datestamp: 2016-01-15 02:06:49 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:15:27 status_changed: 2016-01-15 02:06:49 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 1 creators_name: Nakicenovic, N. creators_id: 395 creators_orcid: 0000-0001-7176-4604 title: Freeing energy from carbon ispublished: pub internal_subjects: iis_ene internal_subjects: iis_ecn divisions: prog_ecs abstract: This article discusses energy industries and systems, and the desire to free carbon use from these systems. The large secular decrease in energy requirements throughout the world is associated with a greater knowledge of making, operating and using energy systems. The emissions of carbon dioxide from energy systems have also decreased per unit of energy consumed, and this decarbonization is shown not only to be emblematic of its evolution, but also a highly desirable objective. Five countries (China, France, India, Japan, and the USA), representing diverse economic and energy systems, are analyzed in terms of the decarbonization process. A global history of energy and carbon savings and the reasons for them are discussed, and whether future savings may be sufficient to allay environmental concerns associated with carbon is examined. Energy substitution is discussed as a means to a non-carbon energy future, which would result in a major transformation of the industrial ecosystem. This could accommodate the foreseeable levels of population and economic activity. date: 1996 date_type: published publisher: MIT Press official_url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20027372 iiasapubid: XJ-96-028 iiasa_bibref: Daedalus; 125(3):95-112 [1996] iiasa_bibnotes: Available as IIASA Reprint RP-97-004 creators_browse_id: 214 full_text_status: public publication: Daedalus volume: 125 number: 3 pagerange: 95-112 refereed: TRUE issn: 1548-6192 coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article citation: Nakicenovic, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7176-4604 (1996). Freeing energy from carbon. Daedalus 125 (3) 95-112. document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4673/1/Freeing%20energy%20from%20carbon.pdf