TOWARDS A NEW ENERGY CULTURE




How will we integrate the transition in our living environments, create more and better space for production and transport of new energy vectors above and beyond the surface? What intelligent synergies can we envision given the multi challenges ahead? And what is the look and feel of a renewable energy system, and how can you engage with it?
Our fossil fueled economy has brought our society many prosperity and societal improvements in our daily lives. But the abundance of carbon released through the processing of the energy flows has disrupted the carbon balance of the atmosphere. To stop climate change - threatening our planet - we have to shift and partly re-draw our whole energy system from production to end consumer. Our energy vectors need to be renewable energy based. This transition is a huge challenge for us as a society, it needs the support from all actors involved from policy and industry to every energy consumer: meaning you and me.
Our society has throughout history always been shaped by the energy supply. Be it fire pits in the first communities, coal-based city gas in cities, intensified agriculture, diesel cars or water dams. The production, transport, transformation and consumption of different forms of energy impacts our living environments and daily lifes. Even more the energy infrastructure has a whole might be one of the driving forces of the way we life, eat or move our selves.
The energy feed for our society has also coloured and manifested itself in our lifes in different ways: the typological identities that came with the impressive infrastructure and buildings of the energy companies, the solar panels in sub-urban neighbourhoods, car-sharing, the colour green, a decorative fire place, vegan food day or even post stamps. Energy manifests it selves in many forms throughout our daily lives.
To make the energy transition happen on this huge scale we will need to develop a new energy culture. One that embraces a new image of our society, that is both trustworthy, catchy as sexy. How does a Hydrogen economy look like?
To upscale & embed the energy transition we also need to develop a new common
exciting energy culture