[seminar] Brijunska konferencija

[hbuljan at phy.hr]

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Srdačan pozdrav,
Hrvoje Buljan

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Svake druge godine organizira se Brijunska konferencija, ove godine
12-ta. Tema je znacajna za nase doba.

Brijuni Conference
Sustainable Energy Sources
30.8.-3.9.2010
http://www.brijuni-conference.irb.hr/

Energy needs in future will increase at a rapid rate, and there are at
least two principal reasons for that. One is a rapid emergence of new
industrial nations with extremely large populations and the other is
greater demand in industrialized nations for even higher standard of
living. Energy is used for food production, chemical and
pharmaceutical industries, education, social order and transport.
Economizing energy consumption is important as a short term solution
but it is imperative to explore the sources that would satisfy long
term needs. In particular the conference will deal with the three of
the major problems, fusion, solar energy and hydrogen technology.
Fusion is ultimately the solution for the energy needs of our
civilization. It is virtually an unlimited source, with deuterons from
water, it does not affect the environment, and it is the most
?democratic?, meaning that no particular geographic region would have
a monopoly of it. Solar energy is another important source, but before
its large scale harvesting several important problems must be solved.
The foremost is to increase the efficiency of solar cells, that is,
the direct conversion of electromagnetic radiation into electricity.
Hydrogen has two important roles in the future solution of the energy
problem. One is for storage of energy that is produced by other means.
Hydrogen is not easy to manipulate and storage is a challenges because
it also involves efficient retrieving it from storage. One also has to
improve the efficiency of hydrogen production.


-- 
Prof. S. Danko Bosanac
R. Boskovic Institute
Bijenicka c. 54
Zagreb, Croatia
Tel: +385 1 4561 038
http://www.irb.hr/users/bosanac