Thursday, January 27, 2011

Powering The World With Alternative Energy by 2050

pollution



1/27/2011



Jamel Johnson



Turnning to clean energy has been a goal for a while. Mark Z. Jacobson

says if we try we could get to 90 percent clean energy by 2050. that would be a great acheivment. He says the world can be ran off of renewable resources, wind,water, and sun. I know it doesnt seem that easy but, Mark Jacobson there arent any barriers in converting the world to clean energy. He says it all about if we have the societal and political will to. Well so far our president which stated in his state of the union address that he wants 80 percent of America's electricity to be by clean energy by 2035. You might have thought that goverment have been making a effort in clean oenergy with the talk of boifuel. But that term has been tossed around the wrong way. For example cutting down a forest to plant a crop for biofuel will increase incerease the carbon instead of reducing it. So if we didnt do that and converted the world to clean energy we could save up to 3 million lives from just air pollution alone. i think that is something to shoot for. Marl Jacobsn says converting into clean energy would cost anything, he says the cost is similar to the cost we have today. I have no idea if that is foreal; we would have to make new systems and factories, so that is questionable. The whole pollution problem for the world is questionable.

My questions are , what do you do with all the oils rigs that we have, what will happen to all the facotories we have now. it wil be hard to change to clean energy but, it would be worth the change in the long run.

http://paloalto.patch.com/articles/powering-the-world-with-alternative-energy-by-2050

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