Future of Energy

by on 20/04/10 at 6:36 pm |  

I just finished a day of consulting with GHD Engineering in Kuala Lumpur (I am doing a long range planning project with them) and we discussed, among many trends, the future of energy.

As I flew back and forth I was reading the recent book by James Hansen, Storms of My Grandchildren. In it he makes a strong case for 4th generation nuclear power. This is intriguing me.

Right here in my location is a Bill Gates backed company, TerraPower, developing next gen nuclear. This is worth exploring as a scalable and green alternative energy.

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3 Responses to “Future of Energy”

  1. sheikh faleigh

    May 26th, 2010

    Hi Glen,

    Greetings from Malaysia…

    I organised the futurist forum with john naisbitt and HE Tun dr mahathir in year 2008 and i think i gave agood start of making the corporate and the government snr officers in changing thier mindset to focus on futurist analysis then any other concept.

    i have now formed the futurist foundation in Kuala Lumpur.

    I am wondering if you would be interested to speak at our conference soon in the near future

    thank you and hope for your prompt reply

    Sheikh faleigh Sheikh Mansor
    Founder & CEO
    The Futurist Foundation

  2. Glen Hiemstra

    May 26th, 2010

    Please contact me at glen@futurist.com and we will make arrangements for such a presentation. I would be honored.

  3. William

    Jun 30th, 2010

    Hello Glen,

    Any nuclear power is not the right course in alternative energy
    source since it’s not really eco-friendly. I have a theory of which
    I feel would be much better for alternative energy. But I won’t
    say or go into detail what it is cause I haven’t found a way to
    prove or patent the idea. If anything it would rely on some solar power while creating alot of energy. The danger of nuclear power is how it adversely can affect the environment & human life. We seen what happen in Russian’s Chernobyl disaster. It can happen again. Which would ruin so much of our resourceful land at a certain radius for many years. As for human life, it would make
    people sterile in procreative and cause morphing defects in
    human normalcy, as well as wild life. Nobody looks at what if a tornado or strong electric storm hits one of those nuclear power plants and the disaster it can cause. Or how it might affect the protective fields of our planet. Everybody seems to not cover every aspect that can happen wrong before venturing or investing in such. I believe nuclear power is so unstable that
    it’s only best use would be for space mines against incoming
    meteors, nuclear strikes and possible space invaders.
    Any nuclear power is disaster technology that should be better
    left alone and not ventured.