Mark Z. Jacobson and colleagues show that it's technically
possible for each state to replace fossil fuel energy with entirely clean,
renewable energy.
(June 10, 2015) One
potential way to combat ongoing climate change, eliminate air pollution
mortality, create jobs and stabilize energy prices involves converting the
world's entire energy infrastructure to run on clean, renewable energy.
This is a daunting challenge. But now, in a new study, Mark
Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford,
and colleagues, including U.C. Berkeley researcher Mark Delucchi, are the first
to outline how each of the 50 states can achieve such a transition by 2050. The
50 individual state plans call for aggressive changes to both infrastructure
and the ways we currently consume energy, but indicate that the conversion is
technically and economically possible through the wide-scale implementation of
existing technologies.