{"id":14057,"date":"2015-08-19T14:03:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T18:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=14057"},"modified":"2015-08-19T14:04:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T18:04:45","slug":"renewable-energy-worlds-second-largest-source-of-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/renewable-energy-worlds-second-largest-source-of-electricity.html","title":{"rendered":"Renewable energy world’s second largest source of electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nWhy are we building any new natural gas pipelines when solar and wind\r\nhave already won the world?\r\nPlus solar and wind don’t frack, don’t need any fuel, don’t require\r\neminent domain, and don’t suck up any cooling water.\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nAlex Kirby, Climate News Network, 19 August 2015,\r\n\r\nWorld’s Second Largest Source of Electricity Is Now Renewables<\/a>,\r\n\r\n\r\n

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\r\nElectricity generation from renewable sources has overtaken natural\r\ngas to become the second largest source of electricity worldwide,\r\nthe\r\n\r\nInternational Energy Agency (IEA) has announced<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n

\r\nCoal is still #1, but not for long.\r\n

\r\niea, 6 August 2015,\r\n\r\nRenewable electricity generation climbs to second place after coal:\r\nGrowth driven by wind and solar<\/a>,\r\n

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\r\nThe growth in non-hydro renewable electricity was driven by solar\r\nand wind. In 2014, solar photovoltaic overtook solid biofuels to\r\nbecome the second largest source of non-hydro renewable electricity\r\nin OECD Europe, with a share of 17.3%. Since 1990, solar\r\nphotovoltaic has been increasing at an average growth rate of 44.6%\r\nper year, and wind at 27.1% per year.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nEven 44.6% per year is more than doubling every two years,\r\nand in more recent years, the U.S. solar growth rate is more like 65% per year.\r\n

\r\nIn this graph, solar PV is the gold line bursting up since 2010,\r\nand wind is the gray line up tp since 2000.\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nWe know how to power the whole world on sun, wind, and water, and nothing else.\r\nHere’s\r\nthe plan for the U.S.<\/a> to get there\r\n25% by 2025,\r\n80% by 2030,\r\n90% by 2035,\r\nand 100% by 2040.\r\nMaybe if we keep using\r\n\r\nPerseus’ mirror-shield of truth<\/a>, the world will see the\r\npipeline Medusa as the monster it is and we’ll do all this even faster.\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\n
\r\nMedusa bronze statuette \u00a9 Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThe clean renewable energy future has already begun;\r\nlet’s go forward, not frack.\r\n

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