Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. But no one is entitled to their own facts.
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| Installed capacity values for 2015 (left column in each pair) and those used in the Jacobson studies (right column in each pair). The 100% wind, solar, and hydroelectric studies propose installing technologies at a scale equivalent to or greater than the entire capacity of the existing electricity generation infrastructure. The other category includes coal, natural gas, and nuclear, all of which are removed by 2050. |
IMHO, the facts are that climate change is happening, is man-made, and is a threat to mankind.
How much of a threat, and how imminent the threat, are things we can talk about.
The big question is what to do about it. There are some who peddle the false hope that we can fix climate change on the cheap.
No. Climate change is not going to be fixed on the cheap. Sugarcoating the requisite effort isn’t doing us any favors.
Which brings us to the widely publicized 2015 claim by four academics from Stanford University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Berkeley that we can power the entire economy at “low cost” with just wind, water and solar (WWS) resources, using electricity and hydrogen as the delivery systems. The study was led by Stanford’s Mark Jacobson, so let’s call them the Jacobson Group.[1]
Read the story by Steve Huntoon on RTO Insider - “Counterflow: Alternative Facts and Global Warming.”
