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I am very pleased to present to you the proceedings of the workshop “Energy
Challenges: The Next Thousand Years,” held March 30–April 1, 2007. Prompted
by the seriousness of the energy crisis and climate-change effects worldwide, the
workshop emphasized tactics and strategies for the world’s future in energy.
The Foundation invited energy experts from Europe and North America, and
scholars concerned with the long-term future of humanity to come together to
discuss renewable energy science and technologies anticipated to emerge during
coming centuries. Sixteen participants, representing four countries, gathered to
share their expertise.
The Foundation For the Future was established with the mission to increase and
diffuse knowledge concerning the long-term future of humanity. Our Humanity
3000 Program focuses specifically on the thousand-year future, starting with the
basic question: “Where does humanity go from here?” The March/April 2007
workshop posed that question in the context of energy in three time periods:
from now to the end of the present century, over the next few centuries, and the
next thousand years.
This book is a comprehensive record of the “Energy Challenges” workshop. I
hope you will enjoy reading these discussions and the recommendations that
grew out of them related to energy going forward in this millennium.