Title: Climate Change and Energy Technology Adaptation Options
1Climate Change and Energy Technology Adaptation
Options
- Dr. Ned Djilali
- Director, Institute for Integrated Energy Systems
- University of Victoria
Presentation to Standing Senate Committee on
Agriculture and Forestry Vancouver, Feb. 28, 2003
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2Historic Transition of Global Energy System
3The Path to Decarbonization
Coal H/C 0.5
4Towards a Hydrogen Economy ?
5CO2 Emissions by Sector, 1997
(Source NRCan)
6Climate Change Plan Measure-Are these sufficient?
- Improve efficiency by 25 (5.2 MT)
- Ethanol blending in 25 of gasoline (0.8 MT)
- Fuel Cell vehicles demo program (0.1 MT)
- Integrated Urban Transp. Strategy (0.8 MT)
- Transp. Sector Voluntary cutbacks (2 MT)
- Consumer action (0.8 MT)
- Ethanol blending in 35 of gasoline
- biodiesels (2 MT)
- Fuel Cell vehicles demo program (0.1 MT)
- Sustainable Urban Planning
- Public Transit (0.8 MT)
- More efficient goods transport (2.3 MT)
7Energy System Chain
ServiceTechnologies
TransformerTechnologies
Services
Currencies
Sources
8ServiceTechnologies
TransformerTechnologies
Services
Currencies
Sources
Harvesting
Combine
Diesel fuel
Drilling rigs and oil refineries
Crude oil
Drilling rigs and oil refineries
Diesel fuel
Crude oil
Water Treatment Plant
Potable Water
Wind Turbine
Wind
Electricity
Hydro dams
Hydropower
Coal
Generating stations
Geothermal
Natural Gas
Uranium
9ServiceTechnologies
TransformerTechnologies
Services
Currencies
Sources
Harvesting
Combine
Diesel fuel
Drilling rigs and oil refineries
Crude oil
Drilling rigs and oil refineries
Diesel fuel
Crude oil
Water Treatment Plant
Potable Water
Wind Turbine
Wind
Electricity
Hydro dams
Hydropower
Coal
Generating stations
Geothermal
Natural Gas
Uranium
10ServiceTechnologies
TransformerTechnologies
Services
Currencies
Sources
Harvesting
Combine
Diesel fuel
Drilling rigs and oil refineries
Crude oil
Drilling rigs and oil refineries
Diesel fuel
Crude oil
Water Treatment Plant
Potable Water
Wind Turbine
Wind
Electricity
Hydro dams
Hydropower
Coal
Generating stations
Geothermal
Natural Gas
Uranium
11The current energy system
Hydro Oil/Nat. Gas Coal Nuclear
Electricity available baseload
Stationary Services
Renewables etc.
Mobile Services
Oil
12The emerging energy system
Hydro Nuclear Wind Solar Geothermal Tidal
Electricity available baseload
Stationary Services
13How do we get there ?
- Technology
- Wind turbines
- Micro-power technology
- Nuclear Reactors
- Reformers
- Electrolysis
- High Pressure Composites
- Liquefaction
- Metal Hydrides
- Gas pipelines
- Fuel Cells
- Hybrid electric cars
- Co-generation
- Challenges
- Costs
- Hydrogen Infrastructure
- Insufficient pace of development
- Insufficient Government Incentives/Penalties
- Inadequate Demonstration Programs
- Risk of losing Canadian companies
14- Initiatives around the World
- California Fuel Cell Partnership
- European Fuel Cell Bus Demonstration
- Global Environment facility-UNDP
- Japan Hydrogen Fuel Cell Demonstration Project
15Transportation Energy Service Through Time
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