With the pace of change occurring in the world after the Second World War, it seems nobody has enough time and resources to spare to do proper research for issues, governance decisions and technologies before they are adopted or entered in the marketplace.
It is a very inefficient way of moving forward as more research needs to be done than we are getting at this time.
It really is prudent to properly research issues surrounding a new innovation or a government policy prior to its implementation.
The most valuable research often comes from a collaborative process and an adaptive management plan that uses a team of multidisciplinary specialists coordinated by a manager who does not allow any one specialist or interest group corrupt the due process. Allowing the answer to surface with a guiding hand along with the attitude of “failure not being an option” is a very successful way of ensuring a tangible result.
The answer from the research may affirm the hypothesis/research challenge or it can be a negative result. Both are equally important outcomes as the focus of research in solar energy is the truth. Many of the technologies are very expensive and it does not make sense to scale up to full production due to unknown technical issues or an unclear knowledge of the economics.
If the solar and renewable energy technologies as well as the strategies are to flourish, then the truth must prevail! However, the damage cost to the environment, due to mankind’s activities, needs to be considered in the economic analysis. The price on carbon is an important factor but there are others such as water quality, and general air quality, as affecting health and ecological issues, that should play a part in the calculation of viability against the status quo of fossil fuels in energy generation.
According to our current solar-e experts the following questions and topics are in need of research to affirm or reject decisions applying to solar and renewable energy technologies and systems:
- The economic realities of passive solar design strategies in various climatic regions.
- The net energy analysis of all renewable systems.
- The net energy analysis of nuclear energy in comparison.
- What is the importance of renewable energy systems and strategies in the quest to conquer and counteract Climate Change in relation to other existing and emerging strategies?
- What is the advantage of major industries in taking the lead?
- What will be the effect of population growth on Climate Change and the adoption of solar and renewable energy?
- What are the viable populations in various regions of the world by 2050 based on the assumption of Climate Change being addressed and the feasible amount of economically applied renewable energy in use?
- What is the sustainable world population and what is the estimate of their energy needs by 2050?
- What is an appropriate strategy in each country for population growth based on food production, water availability and the ecological sustainability of each country?
- What is the viable rise of carbon that will enable the renewable energy systems to reach their predetermined share of the energy supply mix?
- What legislative and economic measures would encourage and improve the sustainable mentality in people (government rebates for small or big solar systems and applications – for energy production, and also for energy savings)?
- Solar energy applications in food production.
- Solar energy in water processing.
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