{"id":10301,"date":"2014-03-08T13:19:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T21:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10301"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:16:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:16:44","slug":"100-renewable-energy-is-feasible-and-affordable-according-to-stanford-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/100-renewable-energy-is-feasible-and-affordable-according-to-stanford-proposal","title":{"rendered":"100% Renewable Energy Is Feasible and Affordable, According to Stanford Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: <a title=\"Posts by Cameron Scott\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/cscott\/\" rel=\"author\">Cameron Scott<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<br \/>\n<br \/> One of the greatest promises of the high-tech future, whether made explicitly or implicitly through shiny clean concept sketches, is that we will have efficient energy that doesn\u2019t churn pollutants into the air and onto the streets.<br \/> But here in the present, politicians and even many clean energy advocates maintain that a world run on hydrogen and wind, water and solar power is not yet possible due to technical challenges like <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2013\/11\/01\/power-storage-missing-link-in-path-to-renewables-gets-a-mandate-in-california\/\">energy storage<\/a> and cost.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Stanford University researchers led by civil engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/efmh\/jacobson\/\">Mark Jacobson<\/a><b> <\/b>have developed detailed plans for each state in the union that to move to 100 percent wind, water and solar power by 2050 using only technology that\u2019s already available. The plan, presented recently at the <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/02\/19\/termite-inspired-robots-erect-buildings-based-on-a-picture\/\">AAAS conference<\/a> in Chicago, also forms the basis for <a href=\"http:\/\/thesolutionsproject.org\">The Solutions Project<\/a> nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe conclusion is that it\u2019s technically and economically feasible,\u201d Jacobson told Singularity Hub.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/03\/08\/100-renewable-energy-is-feasible-and-affordable-stanford-proposal-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: Cameron Scott \u2014 Singularity Hub One of the greatest promises of the high-tech future, whether made explicitly or implicitly through shiny clean concept sketches, is that we will have efficient energy that doesn\u2019t churn pollutants into the air and onto the streets. But here in the present, politicians and even many clean energy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47199,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10301\/revisions\/47199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}