‘No miracles needed’: Prof Mark Jacobson on how wind, sun and water can power the world
by Damian Carrington Environment editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#683QK)
The influential academic says renewables alone can halt climate crisis, with technologies such as carbon capture expensive wastes of time
Combustion is the problem - when you're continuing to burn something, that's not solving the problem," says Prof Mark Jacobson.
The Stanford University academic has a compelling pitch: the world can rapidly get 100% of its energy from renewable sources with, as the title of his new book says, no miracles needed".
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