Sustainable Energy for Everyone; A Challenge for the Future. Foreword to the Workshop Proceedings

• Published in: Energy procedia 2013, Vol.41, p.1-3
• Main Authors: Climent-Font, Aurelio, Perlado, Manuel
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Renewable energy sources
• ISSN: 1876-6102; 1876-6102
• DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2013.08.065

Energy is a good necessary for our society. Consuming energy may have its side effects, and the challenge is to provide energy for everyone in a sustainable basis, this essentially means preserving the planet for future generations and maintaining the energy sources. Fossil fuels are actually the main sources of primary energy supply in the world, accounting for more than 80% of the total energy production. The accepted fact of an eventual declining in the production of conventional oil and natural and gas is presently overcome by the expectations of the exploitation of unconventional reservoirs of these energy suppliers. These newly accessible and economically viable energy sources are also finite and the need for a global policy on the rational use of the available energy sources, sustainable and not sustainable, is of paramount importance. Moved by this concern, the Energy-2012 International Workshop on the Modification and Analysis of Materials for Future Energy Sources was organized by the Centro de Micro-Analysis de Materiales of the Universidad Autónoma Madrid. These proceedings show some of the communications presented at the Workshop.