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Organicpicks rated 5 weeks ago- From the page: "# A massive switch from coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear power plants to solar power plants could supply 69 percent of the U.S.â€s electricity and 35 percent of its total energy by 2050. # A vast area of photovoltaic cells would have to be erected in the Southwest. Excess daytime energy would be stored as compressed air in underground caverns to be tapped during nighttime hours. # Large solar concentrator power plants would be built as well. # A new direct-current power transmission backbone would deliver solar electricity across the country. # But $420 billion in subsidies from 2011 to 2050 would be required to fund the infrastructure and make it cost-competitive."
- andypalmer rated 3 months ago
- 100% solar is hardly a practical idea on a world wide basis. for a more balanced view of renewable energy check out these guys www.worldofrenewables.com we need them all wind solar and fuel cells to advance
- jasoncalacanis rated 3 months ago
- Can you imagine a world in which the US was 100% solar powered? The folks at Scientific American can
- Nopanacea rated 3 months ago
- Scientific American says we need 70% of our electricty from PV. From the site:"Well-meaning scientists, engineers, economists and politicians have proposed various steps that could slightly reduce fossil-fuel use and emissions. These steps are not enough. The U.S. needs a bold plan to free itself from fossil fuels. Our analysis convinces us that a massive switch to solar power is the logical answer.
- gzuckier rated 3 months ago
- By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions But $420 billion in subsidies from 2011 to 2050 would be required to fund the infrastructure and make it cost-competitive. That's less than we now spend on subsidies for the petroleum industry, and less than is budgeted for "clean coal" subsidies.
- LafnLion rated 3 months ago
- An article from Scientific American about a plan for the US to produce 70% of it's electricity strictly from photovoltaic solar cell installations - by 2050.
- readicculus rated 3 months ago
- A Solar Grand Plan By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions
- laodan rated 5 months ago
- A Solar Grand Plan in Scientific American by Ken Zweibel, James Mason and Vasilis Fthenakis
* A massive switch from coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear power plants to solar power plants could supply 69 percent of the U.S.\u2019s electricity and 35 percent of its total energy by 2050. * A vast area of photovoltaic cells would have to be erected in the Southwest. Excess daytime energy would be stored as compressed air in underground caverns to be tapped during nighttime hours. * Large solar concentrator power plants would be built as well. * A new direct-current power transmission backbone would deliver solar electricity across the country. * But $420 billion in subsidies from 2011 to 2050 would be required to fund the infrastructure and make it cost-competitive. A Solar Grand Plan Great article and great proposal. The point here is not that this proposal has necessarily to be adopted. The point is that the discussion about an alternative energetic road at last starts to take place. No one alternative to fossil fuels will answer all of our needs. Our energetic future will comprise different technological roads among which solar and geothermal will definitely play a leading role. But peak oil and climate change are upon us now and those alternative roads are only expected to start answering our energetic needs in a meaningful way within a few decades at best. In the meantime we will need to revise drastically our ways of living in order to limit the size of our footprint on mother nature and our energetic consumption to do that. There is no escaping that fact. Or we voluntarily change our ways or we will be imposed to change as a consequence of catastrophic events of our making.
- A Solar Grand Plan in Scientific American by Ken Zweibel, James Mason and Vasilis Fthenakis
