By Frank Thomas and John Lawrence
Renewable Solutions Are Here Now and Technically Feasible Today
It is now clear, at least from a technical perspective, that we could eliminate fossil fuels over a period of 20 to 40 years. That's if we went full steam ahead without being blocked by fossil fuel corporations, the politicians beholden to them and various other vested interests who stand to profit from the status quo.
In 2009 Mark Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University and Mark Delucchi, a research scientist at the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, came up with a detailed, groundbreaking road map for just how this could be accomplished. Their study showed how 100% of the world's energy could be supplied by wind, water and solar (WWS) resources by as early as 2030. Their paper, which appeared in Scientific American, is called "A Plan for a Sustainable Future by 2030."
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