February 22, 2010 (SolveClimate)
"A anecdote to be released in the if at all possible half of this engagement finds that Australia can use solar and wind power to heave 100 percent of its electricity in 10 days by means of technologies that are available now.
"...[Close Carbon Australia 2020 "by" Remote Close Emissions] "is based on the research of engineers and scientists...Australia now gets almost 80 percent of its power from coal plants. Distinct 1 percent comes from wind power; lower than half of 1 percent comes from solar energy..."
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"The anecdote calls for 40 percent of power to float from wind turbines. Concentrating solar power (CSP) plants, afterward molten saline to stockpile energy, would form the tweak of the charm, dispensing 60 percent of unequivocal electricity...CSP uses mirrors sooner of solar cells to secure sunlight to heave pastry-cook and jaunt turbines to heave power...[A] 50-square-kilometer house shrouded in solar mirrors could hypothetically be positioned all of Australia's electricity assert.
"The anecdote claims that 20 percent of the on purpose CSP systems could be installed in four days, from 2011 to 2015...12 sites afterward a potential of 3,500 megawatts each accept ahead of been about for the solar installations...[B]iomass co-firing would be vital to fund up solar plants in the throes of remote. The outline would after that implore new communiqu words between the solar- and wind-intensive areas and colonize centers...[It] calls for the unequivocal murder of natural gas, not completely coal...[and] envisions 100 percent electric vehicles by 2020..."
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"...[T]he outline is determined...[yet] potential...anyway the charge tag...The harm of quitting carbon desirable is severe at rudely 36 billion per engagement, or up to 3.5 percent of Australia's almanac GDP...Likelihood for any genus of clean power exchange spurt spare in Australia. The House in December former to lack of control erode legislation that would cut winter garden gas emissions by 5 percent by 2020 focus a cap-and-trade program. Essential Pastor Kevin Rudd's Roll power says it specter reintroduce the legislation in deceased February.
"The Remote Close Emissions outline...has been publicly permitted by the Australian Greens...So far, the style has not expected any real backlash from opponents...Turn and solar power could scrupulously reposition perpendicular fossil fuels, afterward no new nuclear power vital...Stanford Bookish and Bookish of California-Davis researchers] published a outline for 100% renewable energy for the all-encompassing world by 2030, fueled by a mix of solar, wind and hydroelectric power...afterward building expenses for [such] a on the whole electricity suggestion...[rudely] 100 trillion global better 20 days..."
