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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

In 2008, Jacobson teamed up with student, Graeme Hoste, to assess whether California’s hourly demand for electricity could be satisfied with a combination of renewable power sources. Jacob justification is a cost benefit analysis whereby the external costs of coal, natural gas and oil far exceed the investment costs for WWS.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

Sea level rising (not because of melting). Naturally the ice which is ‘floating’ in the Arctic will not directly impact sea levels when it melts. This ‘active ingredient’ in natural gas, is up to 28 to 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. Lot’s of Methane.

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How Big Oil Rigs the System to Keep Winning

DeSmogBlog

Exxon, for example, designed oil platforms to accommodate more rapid sea level rise, even as the company publicly denied that climate change was occurring. Don’t Call It Methane, It’s ‘NaturalGas. The oil and gas industry’s ad guys encouraged this view by portraying gas as a coal killer.

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The Uncertain Future of Gas Exports on Louisiana’s Vanishing Coastline

DeSmogBlog

But four hurricanes since 2005 and sea level rise — it really decimated this coastline.” He estimates that 70 metres of his property has been swallowed up by sea level rise since he moved there in 1998, with trees and wetlands washed away as the ocean advanced bit by bit with each passing year.