100% WWS Part 1: Jacobson’s New Study Displaces 99.7% Fossil Energy With Massive Savings
100% renewables for 143 countries covering 99.7% of global energy carbon emissions is very inexpensive compared to business as usual in Jacobson’s latest.
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Carbon Capture: Bright Promise Or Senseless Boondoggle?
Carbon capture has a powerful allure. The Earth is overheating because there is too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. So why not suck out the excess, then store it in holes deep underground — there are thousands upon thousands of old oil and gas wells just waiting for some useful purpose to come along — or use it to make biofuel, fertilizer, medicine, and biodegradable plastics? It sounds like the ideal solution to a problem that affects us all.
September 20 Global Climate Strike Will Be Largest Ever
September 20 will see millions of people around the world assemble to demand urgent and serious action on climate change. Will you be part of it?
15 To 20 Foot Sea Level Rise Possible Sooner Rather Than Later
The latest IPCC report says sea levels may rise by 3 to 5 feet this century. Richard Alley, Michael Mann, and Mark Jacobson believe the actual amount of ocean rise could be up to 5 times greater.
Yang Would Spend $3 Trillion On Residential Solar, But The Same Money Could Decarbonize The…
Yang’s single largest dollar expenditure, 62% of his US$4.9 trillion budget, would only impact 2% to 5% of US energy consumption. And his investments on geoengineering, fusion, and thorium nuclear generation are purely wasted expenditures.
Power To The People — How Renewables & Batteries Are Reshaping The Utility Industry
We are now realizing — 50 years too late — that burning stuff to make electricity and run all our vehicles is making our planet sick, to the point where one day soon it may be unable to support life as we know it. But how to address that situation while continuing to insure we have all the electricity we need when we need it?
100% Renewable Energy, Tesla in the Early Days — #CleantechTalk with Mark Z. Jacobson
In this episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Zach Shahan sits down with Mark Z. Jacobson, professor at Stanford University and co-founder of The Solutions Project, to discuss Mark’s work to bring together important players from science, business, culture, and community behind his vision of 100% renewable energy for 100% of people. They also talk about the early days of Tesla and some of Mark’s special history and connections.
Oceans Need Geoengineering, Not The Atmosphere
Solar geoengineering is a bandaid on the symptoms, not a cure for the causes. It’s like putting out the fires caused by an arsonist wandering around with a flamethrower instead of confiscating and shutting off the flamethrower itself. Global heating would slow and stabilize if we stopped forcing more CO2 into the system. But it’s unclear if that’s as true for oceanic carbon uptake.
Chevron’s Fig Leaf Part 7: Carbon Engineering’s Fuel Is At Best 25x The Cost, 35x…
Carbon Engineering will produce transportation fuels that cost 18-25 times more and have 22-35 the CO2e emissions as just using electricity in an EV
Chevron’s Fig Leaf Part 6: Carbon Engineering’s Air-To-Fuel Plan Is Even Worse
Carbon Engineering is planning to build high-cost and comparatively high-emission transportation fuels by combining their expensive CO2 with hydrogen which they will get via expensive electrolysis.
