Manfred Groll
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.15, pp. 1-7, 2020, DOI:10.5098/hmt.15.2
Abstract Each individual human being, groups of individuals, whole nations depend on the availability of energy for their survival. Without energy, no
civilization can develop and sustain. In our globalised civilization, hundreds of millions of people cannot satisfy their needs for energy, be it in the
elementary form of food, (clean) water for drinking, cooking and irrigation, (clean) air and (clean) soil for production of crops, or be it in energy
required for heating/refrigeration, light, radio, TV, etc. Modern industrialized societies with their huge energy demand for industry, the transportation
sector and for building up or… More >