Argues that 100% coverage of the global energy needs by renewable technology is much more probable than previously thought; explains how energy efficiency technologies will be able to drastically reduce the energy consumption for the same quality of life; demonstrates that traditional energy...

Over the past several decades, there has arisen among informed leaders of industry, government and the environmental movement, an acute awareness of energy as a problem of impending critical magnitude on the national and international scene. The energy crisis or problem, as it has been called,...

The paper first outlines the challenges the global energy system is facing. It then summarises the present knowledge of energy efficient solutions in all energy using sectors from primary energy to useful energy and, more importantly, from useful energy to energy services (material efficiency...