Renewable energy: A global option for global warning
- Solar Energy Research Institute, Golden, CO (USA)
Renewable-energy technologies can help dampen, and perhaps reverse, the menace of global-warming. In a report to the Congress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recommended that renewable energy fulfill that promise. Some energy consultants say that the world's climate can be stabilized only if the global use of renewable energy increase from 7% (1985 figure) to 40% by the year 2025 and 53% by the year 2050. They also believe that renewable energy will be cost-competitive with traditional forms of energy by 2000. These same consultants stress the need to quickly mainstream renewable technologies into the world's energy economy. Today, the U.S. leads the world in the development of technological solutions to global warming. Briefly described are several renewable-energy systems.
- OSTI ID:
- 7229343
- Journal Information:
- Solar Today; (USA), Journal Name: Solar Today; (USA) Vol. 3:6; ISSN SOTOE
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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