= ABSTRACT:
- The world is facing a = climate emergency.
- We must reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and their export and, instead, develop renewable and efficient energy.
- electrification of heating with : heat pumps - can radically reduce natural gas use,
- electrical vehicles cut the need for oil,
- energy efficiency and renewable energy can help meet the greater demand this electrification causes,
- while cutting coal and natural gas use, carbon emissions and resultant climate destabilization.
- = Free and open source hardware design has proven to be an effective method to
- increase innovation and decrease costs of equipment and products
- over a wide range of industries.
- It can accelerate
- practical action
- implementation of policies and strategies to reduce our use of coal, oil and gas.
- We explain the power of open source to:
- improve the performance and decrease the costs
- of decarbonization technologies.
- Refer to the = HardwareX - special issue on = Open Source Decarbonization for a Sustainable World