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LET’S LEAVE A BETTER EARTH FOR OUR GRANDKIDS!

It is now certain. Atmospheric pollution is accelerating. Global temperatures are rising. Climate changes are being observed more frequently. The repair of climate related damages is becoming very expensive. World governments are refusing to act. During the last three centuries, a dramatic increase of energy consumption by world economies has resulted in an explosion of the world’s population and has created much wealth in highly developed nations. All this progress was dependent on the consumption of more and more energy. Huge amounts of electricity are produced by coal combustion in power plants. Automobiles, trucks, trains, ships and airplanes depend almost entirely on burning petroleum derived fuels. Both are fossil fuels. Both coal and engine fuels from petroleum send huge amounts of polluting gases into the sky and heat up the atmosphere. People need food, shelter, electricity, and engine fuels for maintaining their standards of living. Governments must protect the supply of these essential human needs or will face upheavals and riots. This book proposes to advance and use seven energy conversion technologies, which in combination are capable of supplying “Affordable and Sustainable Energies Forever.” It is scientifically and technologically possible to retrieve excessive atmospheric pollution while continuing with the production of plentiful foods, electricity, and engine fuels. Merely seven energy technologies are capable of producing affordable and sustainable energies, can maintain healthy growth of world economies, and can begin with the long-lasting retrieval of excessive atmospheric pollutants. But the clock of Nature keeps ticking. Scientists cannot yet exclude irreversible overheating events, which may result in the destruction of the only known intelligent life in the Universe. World economies must return world climates to the 1960s to keep Earth capable of sustaining life! Soon.