Toward a Low Carbon Paradigm for Power Generation Machines

Internal combustion engines and their harmful effects on health and the climate are now widely and rightly contested by our societies, despite their acknowledged practicality of use. Clearly, the climate disaster that has worsened worldwide since the 1980s calls for a decarbonization of both mobility and stationary power generation worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) and other climate- and health-related institutions regularly warn of the dangers of the all-hydrocarbon approach and its consequences in terms of rising global temperatures and chronic illnesses, which generate an estimated 40,000 excess deaths per year in France due to air pollution.

The prevailing climate and health disorder is now being severely disrupted on all five continents by the consequences of the Covid19 pandemic of 2020 & 2021. This multifactorial upheaval reinforces the need to objectively question the credibility, capacity and anticipated carbon footprint of the new technological, economic and sustainable health models that should be eligible for this emerging low-carbon paradigm for all forms of mobility.

In autumn 2020, Mr. Laurent FABIUS, current President of the French Constitutional Council and President of COP21 in his capacity as then Minister of Foreign Affairs, published a reference work entitled "Rouge Carbone" (Carbon Red), which, based on the reference roadmap of the Paris Agreements in 2015, sets out the expected advances that will be updated at the end of 2021 at the next COP26 in Glasgow, which will formalize the legal entry into force of the Paris Agreements and their likely more stringent developments.

The decade 2020-2030 should clarify the energy landscape, which will gradually be distributed around the world between low-temperature...