Shifting The World To 100 Percent Clean, Renewable Energy As Early As 2030: Here Are The Numbers
Monday, October 19, 2009 - 20:21
in Physics & Chemistry
Wind, water and solar energy resources are sufficiently available to provide all the world's energy. Converting to electricity and hydrogen powered by these sources would reduce world power demand by 30 percent, thereby avoiding 13,000 coal power plants. Materials and costs are not limitations to these conversions, but politics may be, say researchers who have mapped out a blueprint for powering the world.