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  How Renewable Energy Could Make Climate Treaties Moot Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 15:34 -0600
    Re: How Renewable Energy Could Make Climate Treaties Moot jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-25 23:48 +0000
    Re: How Renewable Energy Could Make Climate Treaties Moot gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-11-25 23:36 -0600

#535468 — How Renewable Energy Could Make Climate Treaties Moot

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.




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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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#535570

On 11/25/2015 3:34 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
> How Renewable Energy Could Make Climate Treaties Moot


Obama is pledging 3 Billion of your tax dollars to go to corrupt 3rd 
world nations, under the vaporwhere canled Global Worming or Climax Change.

Instead of feeding the poor here in the States, failing to give them 
medical, sanatation or a roof over their heads

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