We are facing a crossroads.
The future depletion of fossil sources, exploited at an unsustainable rate by the global ecosystem, will lead to inevitable consequences on the progressive impoverishment of the environmental resources of our planet and therefore on man’s ability to maintain the current standard of living achieved.
The ‘business as usual’ scenario has worrying consequences that could only be avoided by implementing a change.
The real challenge is to create a base of alternative resources to face the inevitable change, also through a more or less traumatic transition period, aimed at opening up and affirming a SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT in line with the “Millennium Development Goals “of the United Nations Organization (UN) (https://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/)
Among the 17 goals for sustainable development, energy is certainly a central element for the challenges that the world is facing. Access to energy is in fact essential and sustainable energy represents an opportunity for people and the environment as described in the seventh goal which expressly states “Ensuring environmental sustainability”.
So how can the problem be solved?
Both for environmental reasons and for the condition of exhaustion, the massive use of fossil energy resources is incompatible with sustainable development and for this reason, on a global level, a range of alternative solutions has been identified that can be applied on a large scale as sources: the widespread presence of RENEWABLE SOURCES makes it possible to think of a network of distributed generation which, in turn, allows to reduce the costs for the transport of energy, to maintain the wealth of local production and not to export capital to distant countries;
the advances made in the study of technologies related to renewable resources have intensified efforts to develop technologies that strengthen the link between HYDROGEN and alternative sources in order to reduce, if not completely eliminate, dependence on fossil fuels.
Interesting and promising renewable energy sources allow you to hope for a future that is concretely rich in energy, cleaner and more respectful of the environment and the balance between man and nature. However, these energy sources are characterized by an inherent discontinuity of production.
And hydrogen?
The electricity that is produced, if it is not immediately necessary for the needs of the country, could be stored in the form of hydrogen to be reused in the energy field both for the transport system and to supply the electricity grid.
Each of these topics deserves a more in-depth discussion, but we leave the choice to read up on the reader, given the enormous amount of informative, technical and scientific material available in the literature. Here we will limit ourselves to considering a few small aspects to think about.
