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Energy Policy and the Role of Technology in National Security--A.D. Romig, Jr. with Arnold B. Baker
Energy Policy and the Role of Technology in National Security--A.D. Romig, Jr. with Arnold B. Baker
Pages 147-158
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As a practical matter, globalization, growing international interdependencies, and geopolitics set the context for meaningful discussions about energy security. Sandia National Laboratories is a multiprogram organization operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the U.S.
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In a more competitive world, the scope of national policies with major economic impact may become increasingly limited, while the need for clear domestic consumerproducer energy price signals and consistent energy-security, environmental, and economic objectives and policies will become more important. Driven in part by the Internet and economic integration, the world has become increasingly complex geopolitically (Figure 1)
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security. And, while close elections and partisan politics make forging a national consensus on complex issues such as energy security and climate change difficult in democratic countries, autocratic governments such as in Russia and Venezuela have returned to the energy business and are aggressively using energy as a tool of national policy.
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Romig Figure 2 R01394 portrait above broadside below 152 Energy Demand Carbon Dioxide Emissions 800 50 700 45 40 600 Nuclear 35 Other 500 30 400 Natural Gas 25 Non-OECD 300 20 Q uad rillio n B TU s Coal 15 200 Billion Me tric T ons CO2 10 OECD 100 Liquids 5 0 0 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 FIGURE 2 Graphs showing estimated increases in world demand for energy and in carbon emissions by 2030. Source: U.S.
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To stabilize the atmospheric concentration of carbon and other greenhouse gases at current levels, which would ensure that human influence on climate would get no worse than it is today, would require a 50 to 90 percent reduction in current emission levels, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In effect, without carbon sequestration, the world would have to reduce its current use of fossil fuels by 50 percent or more; and unless developing countries like China also reduce their current use of fossil fuels by this amount, then the U.S. and the rest of the world would have to make even greater reductions.
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Nuclear energy, through an integrated nuclear-power enterprise, can play a significant role in both energy security and in reducing carbon emissions. Sandia is helping to bring this about through efforts to ensure the safety and security of nuclear facilities, to solve the nuclear waste problem, to provide innovative nuclear-power options, and to help prevent nuclear proliferation (Figure 4)
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A Range of Technology Innovations Will Enable Romig Figure 4 Advances in Energy Security, Including Infrastructure R01394 Protection, Energy Supply, and Consumption portrait above landscape below For example: • High performance computing, including quantum Quantum information computing for ultra-secure communications Ensuring Nuclear Facilities processing Solving the • Advanced robotics are Safe and Secure Nuclear Waste Problem • Advanced modeling and simulation • Micro-electronic machines and systems Micro-robot Improving Nuclear Power Preventing Nuclear Proliferation FIGURE 5 Technology innovations for a secure energy future. Source: Sandia National through Innovation Laboratories.
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SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS The world economy and energy markets will become increasingly integrated and interdependent, although clearly the risk of "pull-back" and protectionism remains. Based on current trends, energy use and carbon emissions will increase substantially, driven by the developing world.
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. IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
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