Abstract: Many countries borrowed heavily in the 1970's to keep economic development going while they met new energy demands. Now many of those countries are facing default on those loans. In the development of renewable fuels there have been some successes but also in many cases the cost of developing these fuels, such as wind, geothermal and biogas have been higher than first estimated. Oil prices have dropped which discourages further development of new and renewable energy schemes that might reduce the dependency on imported oil. Even though fossil fuel resources will eventually be exhausted, they will continue to be important over the next decade and continuing great interest among developing country energy planners in exploiting conventional fuel resources will be seen. The traditional renewable energy sector -- fuelwood, charcoal and waste for household uses -- still faces problems because of ever increasing pressures on supplies of trees and appropriate bioenergy field crops and waste. It is discussed that developing renewables would be best done as part of an integrated development scheme that would create an entirely new series of industries in a country.
Publication Year: 1985
Publication Date: 1985-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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