A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables

Originally published by Scientific American
By Mark Z. Jacobs · April 20, 2013

Wind, water and solar technologies can provide 100 percent of the world’s energy, eliminating all fossil fuels. Here’s how

Mark Z. Jacobson is professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University and director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program there. He develops computer models to study the effects of energy technologies and their emissions on climate and air pollution. Mark A. Delucchi is a research scientist at the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. He focuses on energy, environ­mental and economic analyses of advanced, sustainable transportation fuels, vehicles and systems.

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