{"id":5955,"date":"2015-11-20T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T17:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=5955"},"modified":"2015-11-20T10:15:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T17:15:01","slug":"mark-jacobson-barriers-to-100-clean-energy-are-social-and-political-not-technical-or-economic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=5955","title":{"rendered":"Mark Jacobson: Barriers to 100% Clean Energy are Social and Political, Not Technical or Economic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">&#8216;As\u00c2\u00a0world\u00c2\u00a0leaders prepare to\u00c2\u00a0gather in Paris\u00c2\u00a0for a landmark climate summit, a\u00c2\u00a0new analysis\u00c2\u00a0from Stanford\u00c2\u00a0University and University of California researchers lays out roadmaps for 139 countries, including the\u00c2\u00a0world\u2019s major greenhouse gas emitters, to switch to\u00c2\u00a0100\u00c2\u00a0percent clean,\u00c2\u00a0renewable energy generated from wind, water and sunlight for all purposes by\u00c2\u00a02050.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Excerpt from the abstract of a <a href=\"http:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/group\/efmh\/jacobson\/Articles\/I\/CountriesWWS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">draft of the new report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;&#8230;Aside from virtually eliminating air pollution morbidity and mortality and global warming, the implementation of these roadmaps will create net jobs worldwide, stabilize energy prices because fuel costs are zero, reduce energy poverty and international conflict over energy as countries become energy independent, and reduce risks of large-scale system disruptions by significantly decentralizing power production. The aggressive worldwide conversion to WWS [wind, water, sunlight power] proposed here will avoid exploding CO2 levels and catastrophic climate change by 2050.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>via\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2015\/11\/20\/mark-jacobson-renewables\/\">Mark Jacobson: Barriers to 100% Clean Energy are Social and Political, Not Technical or Economic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;As\u00c2\u00a0world\u00c2\u00a0leaders prepare to\u00c2\u00a0gather in Paris\u00c2\u00a0for a landmark climate summit, a\u00c2\u00a0new analysis\u00c2\u00a0from Stanford\u00c2\u00a0University and University of California researchers lays out roadmaps for 139 countries, including the\u00c2\u00a0world\u2019s major greenhouse gas emitters, to switch to\u00c2\u00a0100\u00c2\u00a0percent clean,\u00c2\u00a0renewable energy generated from wind, water and sunlight for all purposes by\u00c2\u00a02050.&#8217; Excerpt from the abstract of a draft of the new report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955"}],"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=5955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}