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Results obtained from a study of the present state of the world’s power engineering, prospects for its future development, and its effect on the environment and climate for the period of up to 2200 are presented. It is shown that, given the framework of modern tendencies in the development of civilization, it is expected that the number of the population on the planet, consumption of energy in the world, and scales of negative effect on the atmosphere will all be stabilized.
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Original Russian Text © V.V. Klimenko, A.G. Tereshin, 2010, published in Teploenergetika.
The results presented in this paper were obtained in the course of scientific research works carried out within the framework of the Federal target programs “Investigations and Developments in the First-Priority Lines of the Development of the Scientific and Technological Complex of Russia for 2007–2012” and “Scientific and Scientific-Pedagogical Staff for Innovative Russia for 2009–2013.”
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Klimenko, V.V., Tereshin, A.G. World power engineering and global climate after the year 2100. Therm. Eng. 57, 1035–1041 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040601510120074
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