Much of the savings are derived from reducing the wasted energy involved in digging up and delivering fossil fuel-based power to homes. By taking measures such as backing mortgage-style payments for solar panels to lessen reliance upon the grid, the federal government can make it “dirt cheap” for people to switch to renewables, Zurofsky said. Solar is now the “cheapest source of electricity in history”, according to the International Energy Agency, with the US consuming a record amount of renewable energy last year. Such a scenario would be difficult given the required ramp-up in solar across US towns and cities, according to Brian Snyder, an energy and environment expert at Louisiana State University. “We would need to build an electrical generation system on top of our roofs that is the same size as contemporary US generation,” he said. Issues in the supply chain and patchier generation in less sunny parts of the country would compound this challenge, Snyder added. Zurofsky said the technical potential of rooftop solar comes from the federal government’s own estimates and was feasible. “That does not mean it will be easy to do or that we won’t have to stretch our existing capacities to make it happen,” he said, adding that the report aimed to show “what the future can look like if we are motivated to make it so”.īiden has outlined a $2tn plan to combat the climate crisis, which he has called an “existential threat” to the US. The plan envisions the creation of millions of jobs in renewable energy, the retrofitting and weatherization of homes and commercial buildings to improve their energy efficiency and a boost to the nascent electric vehicle market. Trump, who has consistently dismissed the realities of climate science, has derided Biden’s agenda as something that would “kill” existing energy jobs in the US.īut it appears that American voters are broadly in favor of bolder action to address global heating in the wake of a brutal year of wildfires and hurricanes that scientists say are being fueled by the climate crisis. Snyder said the Biden plan is “probably the most ambitious yet plausible plan I’ve seen” on the climate crisis.File: 652 KB, 985x830, suwako_sip_by_kouotsu.png A New York Times and Siena College poll this week found that two-thirds of voters approve of Biden’s plan, with overwhelming support for the policies among younger voters.
I've been under a rock for a month, what happened to foolz?Īnonymous Tue Apr 14 10:59:28 2015 No.
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