Bob Herbert's Feb. 22 column, "Rising Tides," identifies the global-warming dangers created by our gluttonous use of energy resources.
The decentralization of electrical power production is conducive to a more effective and harmonious use of energy resources.
The key factors affecting the sustainability of our society are research, conversion, delivery and the efficient use of energy resources.
This is positive because the economic use of energy resources is evidently a priority in the world today.
In contrast, the cumulative energy demand, an input-based indicator assessing the use of energy resources, is commonly used, particularly when analyzing energy-intensive product systems.
Even if their income level increases, instead of replacing old energy sources by new ones, households continue utilizing older sources and expand their use of energy resources [36].
Sustainability has environmental, economic, and social dimensions [12, 13] and requires the responsible use of energy resources and reduction in CO2 emission.
The aim is to reward the efficient use of energy resources, both from a resource and environmental standpoint, and to penalise plants inefficient in this respect.
There are always some necessary trade-offs to be made, in order to ensure optimal use of energy resources, while limiting environmental and health impacts.
To achieve long-run sustainability of energy supply, the key idea of this paper is to investigate exergy assessments in DES design optimization to attain rational use of energy resources while considering energy qualities of supply and demand.
