{"id":4795,"date":"2013-04-30T15:43:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T22:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=4795"},"modified":"2013-04-30T16:21:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T23:21:53","slug":"jane-s-long-on-climate-change-and-californias-low-ghg-emission-energy-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=4795","title":{"rendered":"Jane S. Long at Travers Conference on Climate Change and California&#8217;s Low GHG Emission Energy Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 19, 2013, Berkeley<\/p>\n<p>Travers Conference on Ethics and Accountability, California&#8217;s Energy Future<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LjTnbjfJT1o\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 344px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 4px;\" title=\"Jane Long\" alt=\"Jane Long\" src=\"\/pics2013\/CAenergyFuture\/JaneLong_7280ww.jpg\" width=\"334\" height=\"341\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;One of the things that&#8217;s really true about renewables in California is we have plenty of them&#8230;.We&#8217;re barely tapping into what we have, we are the Saudi Arabia of renewable energy here in California. We have all kinds and we have plenty of it. So that&#8217;s not the issue, it&#8217;s not a capacity issue.&#8221; ~ Jane S. Long<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jane S. Long, Associate Director for Energy and Environment, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Co-chair, California&#8217;s Energy Future Committee, spoke about California&#8217;s future energy requirements, climate change, and GHG emissions reductions at the Travers Conference on Ethics and Accountability.<\/p>\n<p>She discussed the challenges of doubling energy production while simultaneously decarbonizing it and maintaining a stable power grid. Long&#8217;s approach and conclusions differ from those which <a href=\"\/?p=4726\">Stanford&#8217;s Marc Jacobson recently presented<\/a> at a &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewables100.org\/pathways-to-100\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pathways to 100% Renewables Conference<\/a>&#8216; in San Francisco, notably, Long&#8217;s decarbonization energy pathway includes nuclear power and biofuels, and she describes the difficulty in reaching 80% emission cuts by 2050 as an innovation challenge.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 4px;\" title=\"Jane Long\" alt=\"Jane Long\" src=\"\/pics2013\/CAenergyFuture\/JaneLong_7305_157w.jpg\" width=\"157\" height=\"135\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As far as achieving 100% emission reductions, Long says, &#8216;the last 20% will be as much effort as the first 60%&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>report by James George<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 19, 2013, Berkeley Travers Conference on Ethics and Accountability, California&#8217;s Energy Future Jane S. Long, Associate Director for Energy and Environment, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Co-chair, California&#8217;s Energy Future Committee, spoke about California&#8217;s future energy requirements, climate change, and GHG emissions reductions at the Travers Conference on Ethics and Accountability. She discussed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4795"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4800,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions\/4800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}