ABSTRACT
However, evidence from the Cato Institute in Washington DC suggests that renewables, especially solar, have an interesting role as a ‘bridge’ fuel, but are unlikely to be the fuel of even the middle term future. Developing countries that cannot afford large electricity grid systems are looking to solar and nuclear as potential sources of fuel for dispersed geographical locations. However, once the wealth of a country increases, infrastructural grid systems will develop, following a similar, but cleaner, fossil fuel path that the older developed countries have taken. These countries have developed a fossil fuel mix, which has moved from high carbon/low hydrogen content (coal) to low carbon/high hydrogen content (gas), it is far more likely that this ratio will continue to move until we are burning hydrogen only, the only by-product of which is water.
