Post your questions on peak oil, wind power, nuclear power and more for our panel of six of the world's leading energy scientists
Adam Vaughan guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 27 October 2010 12.01 BST
Can the world shift entirely from fossil fuels to renewable sources such as wind, solar and marine power? Is nuclear power a good green alternative to coal and gas? When will the oil run out? And what should power the cars of tomorrow - oil, biofuels or electricity?
Here is your chance to get answers from a panel of six of the world's top energy scientists on today's big energy questions.
Just post your questions in the form below. We will pick the ten best questions and then the awards committee of the 2011 Global Energy Prize will answer them here on environmentguardian.co.uk in a week (3 November).
The panel
• Klaus Riedle - a world specialist in the sphere of gas turbine energetics and head of the Scientific Developments Department for high-temperature energetic turbines at Siemens. He was awarded Global Energy Prize in 2005 for his extensive work in the development and creation of powerful high-temperature gas turbines for steam and gas power plants.
• Dr Alvin W. Trivelpiece - a physicist and former director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Department of Energy's world leading research and manufacturing park with approximately 13,000 employees. Dr Trivelpiece was head of the 1986 US Delegation on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy to the USSR and was an early supporter of the Human Genome Project.
• Dr Tom Sanders - the manager of the Global Nuclear Futures Program at Sandia National Laboratories, and president of the American Nuclear Society from 2009-2010. Dr Sanders is a member of the US Department of Commerce's Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee, and has advised numerous senior government officials on the development of nuclear energy in the USA.
• Dr Clement Bowman - founding chairman of the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority (AOSTRA), and pioneered Canada's oilsands extraction project. For his work in this field Dr Bowman was awarded a Global Energy Prize in 2008. He is also a former Chair of the Alberta Government's Technology and Research Advisory Committee and President of the Alberta Research Council.
• Ambassador Pius Yasebasi Ng'wandu - holds a PhD from Stanford University and has held many political positions in Tanzania, including as the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, and as the Minister of Water. He is founder and managing director of consulting group Yaseconsult, and from 1998 to 2005 was the Chairperson of the National Commission of UNESCO.
• Dr Robert Aymar - former Director-General of CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, one of the largest and most respective science research centres in the world. He held this role for five years, during which time he oversaw the completion and first experiments of the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator designed to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang.
