Scott Simpson @ Vancouver Sun ~ Green power holds promise to replace fossil fuel as world’s primary electricity source: NOAA researchers say wind, solar have vast potential
Large-scale green energy systems can affordably replace fossil fuel as the world’s primary source of electricity within 20 years, new research from the United States weather office suggests.
A director with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Friday in Vancouver that wind and solar could supply 70 per cent of electricity demand in the lower 48 states, with fossil fuel and hydro/nuclear renewables each accounting for just 15 per cent by 2030.
Sandy MacDonald, director of the earth system research lab at NOAA, presented the research at a symposium of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual convention, which is taking place in Canada for only the second time since the inception of the AAAS in 1848. (…)
