{"id":8236,"date":"2020-02-21T09:32:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T06:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8236"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:52","slug":"renewable-energy-could-power-the-world-by-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/21\/renewable-energy-could-power-the-world-by-2050\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewable Energy Could Power the World by 2050"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Paul Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Virtually all the world&#8217;s demand for electricity to run transport and to heat and cool homes and offices, as well as to provide the power demanded by industry, could be met by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/renewable-energy\/\">renewable energy<\/a>\u00a0by mid-century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/group\/efmh\/jacobson\/Articles\/I\/CombiningRenew\/100PercentPaperAbstracts.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the consensus of 47 peer-reviewed research papers<\/a>&nbsp;from 13 independent groups with a total of 91 authors that have been brought together by Stanford University in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the papers take a broad sweep across the world, adding together the potential for each technology to see if individual countries or whole regions could survive on renewables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Special examinations of small island states, sub-Saharan Africa and individual countries like Germany look to see what are the barriers to progress and how they could be removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In every case the findings are that the technology exists to achieve 100% renewable power if the political will to achieve it can be mustered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The collection of papers is a powerful rebuff to those who say that renewables are not reliable or cannot be expanded fast enough to take over from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/tag\/fossil-fuels\">fossil fuels<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/tag\/nuclear\">nuclear<\/a>\u00a0power. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/renewable-energy-global-potential-2645202002.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Brown Virtually all the world&#8217;s demand for electricity to run transport and to heat and cool homes and offices, as well as to provide the power demanded by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}