The energy demands of the world are increasingly rapidly as a result of burgeoning demand from vast numbers of people in newly developing countries in the short term and population growth in the longer term.  Providing this energy requirement in a sustainable and ecologically acceptable way is one of the major challenges for engineering, both technologically and also because powerful, often self-serving corporate, regional and national interests confuse and politicize the decision making processes.

Most energy currently comes from fossil fuels, but recent concerns about climate change and the affect of anthopogenic activity on global balances have directed research towards finding more sustainable 'green' alternative energy sources, and finding ways to reduce or eliminate the impact of fossil fuel use on the environment.

ENtri has three main focus area for achieving sustainability in energy supply:

• energy efficiency

• renewable, low and no carbon energy sources

• sequestration (permanent storage) of CO2

Use the button bars on the left to explore some of the projects that are currently being done, and to meet the people involved with them.

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