The Role of Food Energy Technologies in Solving Global Mankind Problems

Abstract

The analysis of the Club of Rome global forecasting mode was carried out. A critical analysis of the Club of Rome activity was given. The purpose of the work is to establish the tasks of the food industry in solving the global problems of mankind. It is noted that the global crises (energy, ecology and food) are most clearly manifested in the food industry. To achieve this goal, a scientific and technical idea has been proposed that to solve the global problems the innovative technologies must be involved, which were not considered at all in the Club of Rome projects. The human development paradigm was formulated, considering the modern advances in science, technology, and nanotechnology. It was substantiated that the nanotechnology use in the food industry is attractive because the food raw materials are nano-sized structures created by nature. Local energy impact on nano-sized elements of the food raw materials can shorten the process time by the orders of magnitude. Such impacts are referred to as "nanoenergy technologies". The most significant result of the work was that the possibility was shown to control the development of the worst global crises by transferring the food industry onto the rails of the "nanoenergy technologies" and thus postpone the crises for another 10-40 years. The scientific significance of the obtained results was that such new effects as "barodiffusion" and "mechanodiffusion" were used in the work. The practical significance of the work was that a technological line for deep processing of food waste was proposed