A Plan for Clean, Sustainable Energy Worldwide in 20-40 Years

Global warming, air pollution, and energy insecurity are three of the most significant problems facing the world today. This talk discusses a plan to solve the problems by powering 100% of the world's energy for all purposes, including electricity, transportation, industry, and heating/cooling, with wind, water, and sunlight (WWS) within 20-40 years. It reviews and ranks major proposed energy technologies to these problems then evaluates a scenario for powering the world with the best technologies. Relevant papers are at http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/susenergy2030.html

Speaker: Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford