{"id":1562,"date":"2022-10-27T17:50:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T22:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2022-11-02T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T17:36:10","slug":"renewables-could-pay-off-within-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/1562\/news\/renewables-could-pay-off-within-six-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewables Could Pay Off Within Six Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"E279\" class=\"qowt-stl-BodyText x-scope qowt-word-para-0\"><span id=\"E280\">A recent study published by Stanford University researcher Mark Jacobson suggests that a transition to renewable energy sources could pay for themselves within 6 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"E281\" class=\"qowt-stl-BodyText x-scope qowt-word-para-0\"><span id=\"E282\">Jacobson&#8217;s study, titled<\/span><span id=\"E283\"> <\/span><span id=\"E284\">Low-cost solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy insecurity in 145 countries<\/span><span id=\"E285\"> <\/span><span id=\"E286\">published in the Journal of Energy and Environmental Science, explores the consequences of a transition to 100% renewable energy in 145 different countries. Jacobson considers traditional renewable sources such as wind and solar alongside supplemental infrastructure such as batteries and energy-efficient transportation. The proposed shift, the paper claims, would save money by reducing energy waste and improving the cost-efficiency of energy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"E287\" class=\"qowt-stl-BodyText x-scope qowt-word-para-0\"><span id=\"E288\">A large amount of energy, Jacobson finds, is wasted in the grid. The low-cost solution proposed in the paper, called &#8220;wind-water-solar,&#8221; is capable of exactly meeting energy demand, eliminating excess waste. The figures from the paper are quite striking: the renewable grid would reduce energy costs from $101 trillion to $13.2 trillion per year (almost a 90% reduction in cost!).<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"E289\" class=\"qowt-stl-BodyText x-scope qowt-word-para-0\"><span id=\"E290\">Better batteries are also a key focus of the WWS plan, as it would allow excess energy captured during peak generation hours to be stored, providing a steady flow of energy even when source output fluctuates. By storing energy for later\u2014a concept called<\/span><span id=\"E291\"> <\/span><span id=\"E292\">load shifting<\/span><span id=\"E293\">\u2014nations could cut energy use by over 50%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"E294\" class=\"qowt-stl-BodyText x-scope qowt-word-para-0\"><span id=\"E295\">While job loss is always a concern with the transition to a greener grid\u2014for example, in the coal-mining communities in West Virginia and other regions of the US\u2014Jacobson also predicts that the project would produce a net gain of 28 million jobs, making this transition astoundingly viable in terms of employment.<\/span><span id=\"E297\"><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study published by Stanford University researcher Mark Jacobson suggests that a transition to renewable energy sources could pay for themselves within 6 years. 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