Will Renewable Energy Ever Meet All Our Energy Needs? – Slashdot

“Dawn Stover has another great piece detailing why renewable energy will never provide us with all our energy needs. She deconstructs the unrealistic World Wildlife Fund report (co-written by several solar companies) that claims renewables will be able to provide 100% of the energy needs of several countries by 2050. From the article: ‘When renewable energy experts get together, they tend to rhapsodize about the possibilities, believing that this will somehow inspire others to make their visions come true. But ambitious plans to power entire countries on solar energy (or wind or nuclear power, for that matter) don’t have a snowball’s chance in Australia. Such schemes are doomed to fail, and not because of the economic “reality” or the political “reality” — however daunting those may be. They are doomed because of the physical reality: It’s simply not physically possible for the world’s human population to continue growing in numbers, affluence, and energy consumption without trashing the planet.'”
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