Amine Boudghene Stambouli
University of Science and Technology of Oran, Algeria
Title: Stem technology initiative by Sahara solar breeder project: Chemistry and electronics of oxides as stem material for future energy and environment
Biography
Biography: Amine Boudghene Stambouli
Abstract
The energy crises and challenges around the globe in the last few decades are a major concern to all countries. Solar energy is a widely used technology nowadays due to its availability. It has no negative effects on the environment as compared to other conventional energy such as the use of fossil fuel which eventually increases the earth’s average temperature and pollution. The earth’s surface accepts a solar amount of 108 kWh day-to-day, that is equal to 500,000 billion of barrels of oil, i.e., a thousand times any oil reserve identified to humans. This more than adequate availability makes solar energy less costly with no pollution. Every living thing preserves its life in a pseudo-steady state flow of energy and material to form a universal cycle for regenerating its origin, i.e. stem species, from the final product in the life cycle with the aid of sun light or other external energy. People start　worrying about a serious effect that may be caused by losing the energy-material balance due to the rapidly growing fossil fuel combustion. The inevitable result is the CO2 accumulation to threaten our sustainability by the global warming effect with CO2, which is not only anticipated but also recognised scientifically. As we could assign the stem cell to branch into every part of animals and plants, it is presumed to be possible to propose the stem concept and technology for in-organic (non-living) materials as well. Although there is a big difference in the life span, rocks, metals, and even our cosmos are aged and changed into various forms to be the most stable species on the earth, i.e. mostly oxides. In this article, we propose the stem technology initiative for recovering the balance in our future world, where human population and energy consumption keep growing, by developing a clean global solar energy supply system coupled with sustainable social security consensus．Our strategy for initiating stem technology R & D is based on the following scenario: 1. Define stem energy and stem material; 2. Design and propose the route to stem energy initiative; 3. Bridge the stem energy and stem material technology; 4. Sahara Solar Breeder (SSB) plan as a promising stem material/energy hybrid technology; 5. Extension to Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and central Asia; 6. Future prospect: Si renaissance and High critical Temperature Superconductor (HTcSC) transmission.