Energy & climate

Based on published reports a short survey is presented on climatic change. Considering world's increase in temperature the use of fossil energy should be replaced as far and as quickly as possible by alternatives. Actual methods for energy production are discussed. At present, only nuclear power plants and concentrating solar power plants are able to meet the large requirements. Regarding the limited resources of nuclear fuel, costs and problems of nuclear techniques urgently solar techniques should be developed for an extended application.