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Edinburgh Lectures - An energy-hungry world: What role for Scotland?

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Speaker: Professor Dorrik Stow

Fossil fuels have been part of the human story from very early in our history, but their popular and abundant use is only a recent affair.

Coal fired the industrial revolution early in the 19th century; and thence came the age of oil. It took 2000 years to use the first trillion barrels of oil. We will use the next trillion in just thirty years from now, and push exploration far into the uncharted deep sea.

Now is a time of profligate consumption, criminal wastage and global warming. A cleaner, sustainable alternative to fossil fuels is to harness the phenomenal, untamed energy of the oceans – waves, tides, wind, currents – and then to store unwanted carbon dioxide far beneath the seafloor.
Scotland has played a major role in this energy story from the beginning.

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