Revolution ends with Dr. Mara Prentiss, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard, reaching this conclusion: “Electricity generated by renewable can easily provide 100 percent of the average electricity consumption of the United States during those next fifty years, virtually eliminating the negative environmental consequences associated with consumption… reduc[ing] and cost without lifestyle sacrifice. … We could be on the cusp of an revolution, which might significantly improve the lives of almost everyone on Earth, if only we have the courage to seize the opportunity.”
I could not agree more.
Prentiss shows that it will be relatively easy for the US to get its total electric power needs from renewables in a short 50-year timeframe (see her quote above); total is possible, she calculates, but will require a longer time horizon. As Prentiss writes (p. 33), “the real issue is how we convert enough solar into a form that people find...
