Climate tech to save the planet: Techno-optimism or greenwashing?
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Jacobson's Plan to Save the World
Jacobson says there are ways to fix that, better infrastructure to move the electricity to where it's needed and plenty of ways to store it once it gets there. By interconnecting through the transmission grid, both geographically dispersed wind and geographically dispersed solar, the more interconnections you have, the smoother the overall output supply is. In all cases, they are less expensive than current fossil fuel systems. So that's Jacobson's plan to save the world, renewable energy, a vast electricity grid and batteries in every home.
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