On February 23, 2016, the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability hosted a debate on following proposition: Is California’s 100% Renewable Strategy Globally Viable? The debate format was a two on two with a moderator. On the side defending the viability of the strategy, Mark Z. Jacobson, the Stanford professor and energy system model…
Forbes has recently published a commentary by Dr. Marshall Shepard titled How Weather And An ‘Interstate of Renewable Energy’ Could Save The Climate By 2030. Dr. Shepard is a past president of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). The basis for his article was the same NOAA study that we discussed here a couple of weeks…
On January 25, 2016 the NOAAnews (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency news) web site published a brief article with the following alluring headline: Rapid, affordable energy transformation possible NOAA, CIRES study: Wind, sun could eclipse fossil fuels for electric power by 2030 As the headline creator hoped, I couldn’t resist reading more. I was shocked,…