Energy

Nuclear Energy

Our world, in a million years, will look much different than it does today. Ice ages will once again come and go, as they did in ancient history, meaning the crushing weight of glaciers will press down upon the Earth and potentially impact any nuclear vault buried deep underground. Even if no humans are around in tens of thousands of years to see the next Ice Age—or maybe no humans as we’d recognize them—scientists still have to take this into account when they plan deep geological repositories to house radioactive waste.

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Windmill

All our wind turbines are equipped with two ice detection systems. One in the blades, and one on top of the gondola. As soon as one of these systems finds ice formation, the wind turbine stops. So in the ice age its impossible to use windmills during the ice age.

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Underwater Windmill

Ocean currents are one source of natural energy that no one has tapped before, either because they weren’t aware of it or didn’t have the technology to capture it. This will be the best way to get energy in an ice age.

Solar panel

Solar activity, measured by the appearance of sun spots, has been declining at a greater rate than at any other time in history, it has emerged.

The Sun is now without spots for the first time in five years after 21 days of minimal activity were observed through the course of 2016.

Although spots reappeared sporadically during the summer, repeated slumps of no activity were recorded through the year.

The trend has prompted scientists to warn that the world is hurtling towards a historic solar minimum event with output potentially dropping to an all-time low.