"Engineers develop state-by-state plan to convert US to 100% clean, renewable energy by 2050"
http://phys.org/news/2015-06-state-by-state-renewable-energy.html
"One potential way to combat ongoing climate change, eliminate air pollution mortality, create jobs and stabilize energy prices involves converting the world's entire energy infrastructure to run on clean, renewable energy."
"This is a daunting challenge. But now, in a new study, Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, and colleagues, including U.C. Berkeley researcher Mark Delucchi, are the first to outline how each of the 50 states can achieve such a transition by 2050. The 50 individual state plans call for aggressive changes to both infrastructure and the ways we currently consume energy, but indicate that the conversion is technically and economically possible through the wide-scale implementation of existing technologies."
I have two problems with this plan: 1) our existing technologies are highly destructive to the environment, and 2) our existing technologies are not versatile enough to be developed into safe, renewable and eco-friendly equipment.
I am an environmentalist and my dream job would be to draw up a map like this. But the map I want to draw would not include such destructive technologies as solar panels and windmills, at least not in their current form.
I like this general idea a lot. But implementing these details would be disastrous.
