ABSTRACT
It has been well recognized that the global warming concerns could be a limiting factor for human kind to use the fossil fuel. In 1973, the Club of Rome commissioned the book “Limits to Growth”, where the author Dennis Meadows warned that the world would run short of resources within a century, putting the planet at risk of expanding hunger as well as economic and social disaster. In response to this warning, Marchetti (1977) discussed the fossil-fuel era with and without carbon dioxide storage as such depicted in Figure 5.2.1. His proposal was the ocean injection of carbon dioxide captured in the process of fossil fuel energy use.
