Jacobson’s New Study Leans Into the Green New Deal
The latest Stanford study on 100% renewables brings Jacobson and team full circle on the Green New Deal
Mark Z. Jacobson and his Stanford team released an updated study in late 2019 covering 100% renewables for 143 countries representing 99.7% of fossil fuel CO2 emissions. It mostly maintains and extends the same technologies, still omitting nuclear and CCS, but adds significant economic analysis and leans explicitly into the Green New Deal.
It’s likely to create fireworks because of that. The eminently sensible set of Green New Deal targets, which are strongly aligned with the UN IPCC 1.5 degree reports and strongly aligned with the Roosevelt New Deal that arguably did make America great, is understandably a large target for commentators from the right, but also from nuclear advocates.
“The U.S. GND contains additional proposed legislation related to jobs, health care, education, and social justice. The present study does not fully evaluate the costs or merits of these other…
