In pursuit of feasible near-future sustainable and environmentally acceptable - ergy solutions to speci?c needs and based on the available - often speci?c and l- ited - resources as pertinent to many smaller transitional countries, the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina in cooperation with Dubrovnik Inter-University Centre invited a panel of experts to present and discuss the sta- of-the-art in the development of new energy technologies at a conference held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on23-25September2006. Up-to-datereviewsof the status and prospects of different options in...