Energy technology is an interdisciplinary engineering science
having to do with the efficient, safe, environmentally friendly
and economical extraction, conversion, transportation, storage
and use of energy, targeted towards yielding high efficiency
whilst skirting side effects on humans, nature and the
environment. For people, energy is an overwhelming need and as a
scarce resource it has been an underlying cause of political
conflicts and wars. The gathering and use of energy resources
can be harmful to local ecosystems and may have global outcomes.
An interdisciplinary field or multidisciplinary field is a field
of study that crosses traditional boundaries between academic
disciplines or schools of thought, as new needs and professions
have emerged. Originally the terms interdisciplinary and
multidisciplinary were applied within education and training
pedagogies to describe studies that cut across several
established disciplines or traditional fields of study.
Subsequently, the terms have earned much wider