Chapter 12
Building a Global Low-Carbon Society
Based on Hybrid Use of Natural Clean
Energy
Tatsuo Sakai, Shuya Yoshioka, Yoshifumi Ogami, Ryohei Yamada,
Yusuke Yamamoto, and Nabila Prastiya Putri
Abstract It is well-known that the extensive emission of greenhouse gases (GHG)
such as CO 2 gas and freon gas during a long period after the industrial revolution is a
fundamental reason causing the global warming and the climate change on our
globe. The average temperature during an entire year at the surface of the globe
has been elevated about 1
C comparing the corresponding temperature before the
industrial revolution. Thus, mitigation or reduction of the global warming is one of
the most important subjects to keep the continuous development of humankind. In
such a circumstance, various kinds of natural energies such as the wind energy, the
solar energy, and the water energy have been focused as energy resources to realize
the low-carbon society, since these energy resources are clean without emission of
any greenhouse gases. In order to use these natural energies as energy resources, the
wide variety of the technologies have been developed extensively nowadays. Considering this trend, the authors have attempted to develop new types of power
generation systems for the wind energy and the water energy in this work. These
new technologies can be effectively combined with solar energy plants and conventional water plants depending on the respective local conditions. In other words, the
hybrid use of natural clean energies appropriate to the individual location such as the
mountainside, the urban area, and the coast/bay area provides us the distinct advantage to realize the low-carbon society without any emission of the greenhouse gas. In
addition, the overall concept to realize the low-carbon society based on these natural
energies is finally indicated together with some remaining subjects to be solved in
the future.
T. Sakai (*)
Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University,
Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan
e-mail: sakai@se.ritsumei.ac.jp
S. Yoshioka · Y. Ogami · R. Yamada · Y. Yamamoto · N. P. Putri
College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan
e-mail: shuya@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp; ogami@se.ritsumei.ac.jp; rm0071sk@ed.ritsumei.ac.jp;
rm0071pp@ed.ritsumei.ac.jp
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Building a Global Low-Carbon Society
Based on Hybrid Use of Natural Clean
Energy
Tatsuo Sakai, Shuya Yoshioka, Yoshifumi Ogami, Ryohei Yamada,
Yusuke Yamamoto, and Nabila Prastiya Putri
Abstract It is well-known that the extensive emission of greenhouse gases (GHG)
such as CO 2 gas and freon gas during a long period after the industrial revolution is a
fundamental reason causing the global warming and the climate change on our
globe. The average temperature during an entire year at the surface of the globe
has been elevated about 1
C comparing the corresponding temperature before the
industrial revolution. Thus, mitigation or reduction of the global warming is one of
the most important subjects to keep the continuous development of humankind. In
such a circumstance, various kinds of natural energies such as the wind energy, the
solar energy, and the water energy have been focused as energy resources to realize
the low-carbon society, since these energy resources are clean without emission of
any greenhouse gases. In order to use these natural energies as energy resources, the
wide variety of the technologies have been developed extensively nowadays. Considering this trend, the authors have attempted to develop new types of power
generation systems for the wind energy and the water energy in this work. These
new technologies can be effectively combined with solar energy plants and conventional water plants depending on the respective local conditions. In other words, the
hybrid use of natural clean energies appropriate to the individual location such as the
mountainside, the urban area, and the coast/bay area provides us the distinct advantage to realize the low-carbon society without any emission of the greenhouse gas. In
addition, the overall concept to realize the low-carbon society based on these natural
energies is finally indicated together with some remaining subjects to be solved in
the future.
T. Sakai (*)
Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University,
Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan
e-mail: sakai@se.ritsumei.ac.jp
S. Yoshioka · Y. Ogami · R. Yamada · Y. Yamamoto · N. P. Putri
College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan
e-mail: shuya@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp; ogami@se.ritsumei.ac.jp; rm0071sk@ed.ritsumei.ac.jp;
rm0071pp@ed.ritsumei.ac.jp
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
W. Zhou et al. (eds.), East Asian Low-Carbon Community,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4339-9_12
215