Kioloa08-New energy systems working group

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Suggested membership and subtopics

• Cormac Corr Australia's role in the hydrogen economy
• Frank Detering Applying complex systems approaches to physics research
• Matthew Hole Australia's role in the magnetic confinement approach to fusion power
• Mathew McGann The student perspective

recommended reading; hot, flat and crowded, Thomas Friedman

First session

• Use of existing infrastructures to build energy (conducting painting on roads, use of cars weights in parkings)
• New needs of energy are created as much as ways of getting more energy are deployed (TV example : screens are getting bigger)
• Cultural habits to change : big houses fully heated or air conditionned and not well isolated)
• Use of sensors to regulate usage.
• Energy equity : how to get everyone embrace the cost of saving energy. Government has to be involved ?
• distributed sources of energy. Thinking locally

Second session

• Define a corresponding environmental cost to be able to optimise the system into the economic context : full economic, social and environment cost
• broadening the full life cycle cost into the economic side of the design.
• Confidence of people into evolution of technologies : governments have to start while technologies are expensive to develop them and make them cheaper
• broader than a technology problem such as global resources management, climate adaptation ...

Papers, reports, projections

IAEA Report on the last 25 years and projections to the next 25 years

• A search engine about to incorporate all documents from the dark web about energy : http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9119863