Stanford professor Mark Jacobson sees a way to clean energy in the U.S. by 2050 with 100% wind, water and solar (no fossil fuels, no nuclear). Here's how.
This recent update of that 2015 work has a couple of notable improvements.
Also, the updated data makes use of battery storage while the first set of calculations he did relied on adding turbines to hydropower plants to meet peak demand, an assumption that turned out to be impractical and without political support for that technology, Jacobson said.
That's where four-hour batteries come in as a way to generate grid stability. "I discovered this all just because I have batteries in my own home," Jacobson told CNBC. "And I figured, oh, my God, this is so basic. So obvious. I can't believe nobody has figured this out."Photo courtesy Mark Jacobson To get more than four hours of charge, multiple four-hour batteries can be stacked to discharge sequentially. If a battery needs more charge output at one time than the battery can provide, then the batteries need to be used simultaneously, Jacobson told CNBC.
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