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type: monograph
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creators_name: Nakicenovic, N.
creators_id: 395
creators_orcid: 0000-0001-7176-4604
title: Freeing Energy from Carbon
ispublished: pub
internal_subjects: iis_ecn
internal_subjects: iis_ene
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: RR-97-004. Reprinted from Daedelus, 125(3):95-112 [1996].
iiasapubid: RP-97-004
iiasa_bibref: Reprinted from Daedelus; 125(3):95-112 [1996]
price: 10
creators_browse_id: 214
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: research_reprint
publication: Daedelus
volume: 125
number: 3
place_of_pub: IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
pagerange: 95-112
pages: 20
refereed: TRUE
coversheets_dirty: FALSE
fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book
citation:   Nakicenovic, N. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/214.html> ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7176-4604 <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7176-4604>  (1996).  Freeing Energy from Carbon.   IIASA Research Report (Reprint). IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: RR-97-004. Reprinted from Daedelus, 125(3):95-112 [1996].     
document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4850/1/RR-97-04.pdf