Renewables Can Turn the Tide on Global Warming
By Kelpie Wilson, TruthOut.org. Posted February 12, 2007.
The American Solar Energy Association (ASES), with the backing of several U.S. representatives and a senator, released its new nuts and bolts approach to reducing carbon emissions with a combination of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.
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Despite its conservative assumptions, the ASES report concludes that renewables and efficiency alone can meet the goal of a 60 to 80 percent emissions reduction by mid-century while the economy continues to grow.
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Carl Pope of the Sierra Club [spoke to the feasibility of a nuclear solution]: "With present technology, without massive government subsidies, nuclear power does not appear to be competitive with [increased] efficiency or wind ... I think what this report reveals, however, is that even if nuclear power never becomes competitive, and it isn't today, we can still solve our global warming problem. And that means we should not be artificially forcing nuclear power into the market mix as some of the current proposals would do."
(click the headline above to read the whole article, and find the link to the ASES report)
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