With a rise in the cost of fossil fuels due to their inadequate supply, researchers over the world have put their bets on the use of renewable energy for a cleaner tomorrow. While renewable energy systems are still not as common as all eco-conscious minds want them to be, Stanford researcher Mark Z. Jacobson and UC-Davis researcher Mark A. Delucchi, believe that within four decades the world could be powered with renewable energy using currently available technology.
If the report of the duo is to be believed, we can save a whopping 2.5 million to 3 million lives a year and with that put an end to global warming thereby reducing air and water pollution. Moreover, all this comes with no added cost to what we are at presently spending on energy generation. All of this would be done with the help of renewable energy sources like water, wind, and solar energy, thereby slowly diminishing the use of fossil fuels.
The plan exactly calls for the use of wind, water and solar energy to generate power. While wind and solar energy generating systems will take the majority of the load, contributing about 90 percent of the needed energy, geothermal and hydroelectric sources will each contribute about 4 percent and the remaining 2 percent will come from wave and tidal power.
Via: Treehugger
