We need energy technological breakthroughs - Richard Heinberg

Richard Heinberg -
we worry about
 generation
rather than
actual output.

Renewable energy expert says the current focus on renewable energy is skewed towards electricity generation and not on actual energy output.

Professor Richard Heinberg, from the Post Carbon Institute in California, said electricity was only 20 per cent of global energy requirements.

The other 80 per cent is used directly in many industrial processes, which he says needs technological breakthroughs to replace the massive global infrastructure that supports them.

Read the ABC Rural story - “Renewable energy expert calls for greater investment in new technology beyond electricity production.”