How To Get To Zero Carbon Emissions By 2050
Regardless of the pathway we take to become carbon neutral by 2050, the actions needed in the next 10 years are the same. (Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab)
Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of San Francisco (USF), and Evolved Energy Research have developed a blueprint to reduce US CO2 emissions to zero by 2050.
“By methodically increasing energy efficiency, switching to electric technologies, utilising clean electricity (especially wind and solar power), and deploying a small amount of carbon capture technology, the United States can reach zero emissions,” claim the researchers.
“The decarbonization of the U.S. energy system is fundamentally an infrastructure transformation,” says researcher Margaret Torn, “it means that by 2050 we need to build many gigawatts of wind and solar power plants, new transmission lines, a fleet of electric cars and light trucks, millions of heat pumps to rep
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Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab)
Reaching zero net emissions of carbon dioxide from energy and industry by 2050 can be accomplished by rebuilding U.S. energy infrastructure to run primarily on renewable energy, at a net cost of about $1 per person per day, according to new research published by the Department of Energy s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the University of San Francisco (USF), and the consulting firm Evolved Energy Research.
The researchers created a detailed model of the entire U.S. energy and industrial system to produce the first detailed, peer-reviewed study of how to achieve carbon-neutrality by 2050. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world must reach zero net CO
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Regardless of the pathway we take to become carbon neutral by 2050, the actions needed in the next 10 years are the same. (Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab)
Reaching zero net emissions of carbon dioxide from energy and industry by 2050 can be accomplished by rebuilding U.S. energy infrastructure to run primarily on renewable energy, at a net cost of about $1 per person per day, according to new research published by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the University of San Francisco (USF), and the consulting firm Evolved Energy Research.
Lockdowns have left us craving rural space. - Copyright Brienne Hong By
• Updated: 22/01/2021
During lockdown, there was a clear desire among city dwellers for learning how to grow vegetables, connect with the earth and make things by hand (just look at how gardening and bread-making took off on Instagram).
When it comes to travel, it makes sense then that urbanites will be seeking opportunities to establish connections with nature and agriculture – hence the
cultivacation trend (a portmanteau of cultivation and vacation ), which is expected to take off in 2021.
Coronavirus has left us desperate to connect with nature.Charles Buchler / Unsplash
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