Energy Pyramid - Prof. M. Kostic

YES! Thermodynamics, a science of energy, and the Mother of All Sciences will provide vision for the future energy solutions:
Conservation with Optimization and Storage (to increase efficiency), Cogeneration (to minimize irreversibility and increase efficiency), Insulation (to minimize losses), and Regeneration (to recover losses) - enabled by sophistication of NEW knowledge and technology.
Kostic's Encyclopedia articles: Energy: Global and Historical Background (Abstract)[Amazon][GoogleBooks]*Physics of Energy (Abstract)[Amazon]*Work, Power, and Energy[E-energy]*
World Energy and Future Plenary Lecture Energy Fundamentals and Future Outlook * SEE - Society Energy and Environment: www.ZerothReligion.com

DEFINITION of ENERGY: "Energy is a fundamental property of a physical system and refers to its potential to maintain a system identity or structure and to influence changes (via forced-displacement interactions) with other systems by imparting work (forced directional displacement) or heat (forced chaotic displacement/motion of a system molecular or related structures). Energy exists in many forms: electromagnetic (including light), electrical, magnetic, nuclear, chemical, thermal, and mechanical (including kinetic, elastic, gravitational, and sound) ... Energy is the ‘‘building block’’ and fundamental property of matter and space and, thus, the fundamental property of existence. Energy exchanges or transfers are associated with all processes (or changes) and, thus, are indivisible from time. If all energy is literally expelled from a confined space, then nothing, empty space will be left. As long as any matter is left it will contain the energy - even at zero absolute temperature the electrons will be orbiting around very energetic nucleus. Matter is and must be energetic, E=mc^{^2}, thus literally, "energy is everything," no energy, nothing in the space (see also Definition of Entropy)."
The Grand Law of Nature: The universe consists of local material structures in forced equilibrium and their interactions via forced fields. The forces are balanced at any time (including inertial - process rate forces) thus conserving momentum, while charges/mass and energy are transferred and conserved during forced displacement in space all the times, but energy is degraded as it is redistributed (transferred) from higher to lower non-equilibrium potential towards equilibrium (equi-partition of energy) -by M. Kostic.
* More at: www.kostic.niu.edu/energy Also: Sadi Carnot’s Ingenious Reasoning of Ideal Heat-Engine Reversible Cycles