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Energy Development is the ongoing effort to provide abundant and accessible energy, through knowledge, skills and constructions. When harnessing energy from Primary Energy sources and converting them into ever more convenient secondary energy forms, such as electrical energy and cleaner fuels, both quantity (harnessing more primary energy) and quality (more efficient conversion to secondary energy) are important. Future energy development faces great challenges due to an increasing world population, demands for higher standards of living, demands for less Pollution and a much-discussed End To Fossil Fuels . Without energy, the world's entire industrialized infrastructure would collapse; Agriculture , Transportation , Waste Collection , Information Technology , communications and much of the prerequisites that a developed nation takes for granted. A shortage of the energy needed to sustain this infrastructure could lead to a Malthusian Catastrophe (although of course it is slightly paradoxical to speak of a shortage of energy, as energy itself can neither be created nor destroyed, see Conservation Of Energy ). A more accurate statement would be that a shortage of the fossil fuels on which we currently rely could prove extremely disruptive or even fatal to many populations in northerly latitudes. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS |
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