Transición total a energía limpia posible para 2050
Total Transition to Clean Energy Possible By 2050 Scientists Say
Stanford scientists have developed a plan using the latest data available where they have outlined how 143 countries around the world can switch to 100 percent clean energy by the year 2050. The plan is an update to a previous report by the same Stanford team that accounted for fewer countries.
The new roadmaps project that transitioning to clean, and renewable energy could reduce worldwide energy needs by 57%, create 28.6 million more jobs than are lost, and reduce energy, health, and climate costs by 91% compared with a business-as-usual analysis.
The fossil fuels that we are presently reliant on for much of our energy consumption, such as coal, natural gas, and oil, are not renewable resources. It’s been a common fact for quite some time that when we exhaust these resources, we won’t be able to produce anymore. Still, with that being said, many regards renewable energy as a subpar and less dependable energy source than our go-to fossil fuels.
However, a team of scientists has come up with an aggressive plan that could cut world power demand by more than half in 29 years using more of the current technology. This is expected to be a vital step forward, preventing the extreme catastrophic impacts of climate change.
The plan would require a hefty investment of around US$73 trillion. But the scientists’ calculations show the jobs and savings it would earn would pay this back in as little as seven years. Some of the money is expected to go towards the development of new technology. This would include tech that makes long-distance travel and shipping cleaner.
This plan could not only contribute towards stabilizing our dangerously increasing global temperatures, but also reduce the 7 million deaths caused by pollution every year and create millions of more jobs than keeping our current systems.
According to the lead author and Stanford engineer Mark Jacobson, the team believes that this project will avoid 1.5-degree global warming based on previous calculations they have performed.
The team believes that the plan could be completed sooner as they concluded in 2009 that a 100 percent transition by 2030 was technically and economically possible despite the speculation that a full transition to clean energy by 2050 might seem aggressive.
The plan involves transitioning all our energy sectors, including electricity, transport, industry, agriculture, fishing, forestry, and the military, to work entirely with renewable energy. With plans this big there are plenty of uncertainties and some inconsistencies between databases. The team takes these into account by modelling several scenarios with different levels of costs and climate damage.
Source: Science Page News