Keynote Speaker 1

Cheap and reliable power sources are essential for the further technical development. However, fossil energy is regarded as dangerous for our environment because the unavoidable CO2 releases. There are technologies already capable to capture CO2 instead of releasing it, but they are barely affordable for the developing nations those who are in the biggest need for new energy resources to accomplish their industrialisation. There was a hope that clean and abundant new form of nuclear energy that means the fusion-based nuclear power plants will solve our energy problem forever. Due the enormous amount of difficult and unsolved technical problems it became clear that fusion power is not going to be available not at least for several decades.