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Re: How Renewable Energy Could Make Climate Treaties Moot

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> How Renewable Energy Could Make Climate Treaties Moot
>> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-renewable-energy-could-make-climate-treaties-moot/
> 
> 
> Fortunately, scientists have done the analyses. They show that switching 
> to an entirely renewable energy system would save money and lives while 
> making international climate agreements unnecessary.
> 
> We recently developed road maps showing how each of the 50 states in the 
> U.S. could abandon nuclear and fossil fuels and change their all-purpose 
> energy infrastructures (that includes electricity, transportation, 
> heating/cooling and industry) to ones powered 100 percent by wind, water 
> and sunlight by 2050. The details of the plan vary from state to state. 
> Overall, however, by 2050 it would be possible to meet 100 percent of 
> power and fuel demands in the U.S. with a mix of approximately 30.9 
> percent onshore wind, 19.1 percent offshore wind, 30.7 percent 
> utility-scale photovoltaics, 7.2 percent rooftop photovoltaics, 7.3 
> percent concentrated solar power with storage, 1.25 percent geothermal 
> power, 3 percent hydroelectric power and less than 1 percent wave and 
> tidal power. Installing this capacity would require less land than one 
> might expect: By our calculations, approximately 0.42 percent of U.S. 
> land would be devoted to the footprints of these generators, and 1.6 
> percent would serve as open space between wind turbines.
> 
> A 100-percent renewable energy system would still need to continuously 
> meet the power demands of consumers?even when the sun isn?t shining or 
> the wind isn?t blowing. This is a solvable problem. Our analysis found 
> that it is possible to stabilize a renewable power system with low-cost 
> solutions including storing excess energy generated when the sun and 
> wind are strong in ice, water, concentrated solar power with storage, 
> pumped hydropower and hydrogen; and by using a smarter power grid to 
> lessen periods of excess demand. In our simulations biomass, nuclear 
> power, natural gas and batteries (with the exception of those in 
> electric vehicles) were unnecessary.
 
 
Yet more pie in the sky nonsense to solve a non-problem invented by
hysterical morons. 
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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How Renewable Energy Could Make Climate Treaties Moot Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 15:34 -0600
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