Daniel Fimbel held a conference yesterday at the association space on Garibaldi Square, addressing the question: “What energy(ies) for tomorrow?”
The ecological and energy future is a fundamental question today. Yesterday, Daniel Fimbel, a scientific and cultural mediator, tried to provide the possible solutions.
For Mr. Fimbel and many theorists, humanity is gradually emerging from a technological era characterized by stock energy (fossil resources) to slowly enter the era of flow energy (renewable energy). However, according to the speaker, there are competing economic strategies in this context. So what is our energy future? Where is the current energy transition leading us?
There are 3 different scenarios:
- a bypass strategy, based on targeted nuclear revivals such as creating new reactors, recycling radioactive waste, or transitioning to fusion.
- an adjustment strategy, the energy bundle or mix strategy based on the coordinated deployment of nuclear and renewable energies (plus some clean fossil devices) to exit the carbon era and its climatic effects.
an adaptation strategy, based on the planned phase-out of nuclear and the carbon cycle, the increase and industrial valorization of renewable energies, demand control through energy efficiency, or transitioning to “Smart Grids”.
These 3 scenarios are applicable with technical progress, with an advantage for the third option, to which eco-citizenship actions, the first applicable solution, must be added.
