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The oil-producing Gulf countries should export
solar
energy from the vast Arabian Desert to both Europe and Asia.
Coal-producing Australia should export
solar
power from the enormous outback to Southeast Asia via submarine cable.
Well-designed feed-in tariff programs offer investors the transparency, longevity, and certainty that they seek – and these incentives have backed approximately 75% of
solar
photovoltaic capacity and 45% of wind capacity built worldwide through 2008.
Using a GET FiT-type structure to underpin the early financing of initiatives such as DESERTEC, a large-scale program to generate
solar
and wind power in the Sahara desert for use in North Africa and export to Europe, holds particular promise.
Eliminating the subsidies would not only stimulate investment in energy efficiency and
solar
power, but would also generate substantial environmental and public-health benefits.
Emphasizing the potential of renewables such as solar, wind, and hydro, they missed the main act.
In fact, far more jobs are being created in
solar
panel installation than are being lost in coal.
This industry – and especially small-scale power generation like rooftop
solar
panels and green mini-grids – has the potential to power African employment growth.
In fact, we calculate that up to one-fifth of the AfDB’s jobs commitment could be met by economic activity linked to the off-grid
solar
industry alone – through direct and indirect employment.
But today, new technologies – coupled with cheaper
solar
panels, better batteries, and mobile payment systems – are changing how power is produced and distributed.
The good news is that funding for mini-grids – including those powered by solar, hydroelectric, wind, or a mix of renewables and diesel – is slowly increasing.
These commitments come after Deutsche Bank announced a $3.5 billion fund in 2016 to help finance sustainable energy projects in Africa, including 10,500
solar
mini-grids systems.
Guarantees, soft loans, and equity investments backed by development aid can help attract investors, as has occurred with
solar
energy projects in Mali and manufacturing plants in Ethiopia.
China has taken the lead in exporting
solar
photovoltaic cells, while clean-tech parks are arising even in the Arab world.
While some factory jobs can be outsourced or automated, robots cannot yet retrofit buildings, install
solar
PV cells on rooftops, or construct vertical farms.
Not because we lack alternatives: the US has ample wind, solar, hydro, and other sources of primary energy that don’t cause global warming.
The same get-rich-quick confusion of means and ends is causing Argentina, host of the G-20 Summit later this year, to pursue fracking of natural gas, with all the associated climate and environmental risks, instead of tapping its bounteous potential in wind, solar, and hydro power.
Solar
power can be produced on the required scale but is too expensive under current technologies.
Solar
power is plentiful but not cheap.
Putting a Price on RainforestsNEW YORK – In early October, shortly after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that his company could, given the opportunity, rebuild the island’s electrical grid using
solar
power.
In many ways, the solution is similar to Musk’s
solar
proposal in Puerto Rico.
The country has significant potential for renewable-energy production, and it is already a world leader in rooftop
solar
energy.
Solar
energy enables plants to absorb carbon gas and thereby produce not only oxygen, but also matter that the animal kingdom uses for food – and that our machines can use for energy.
Hydroelectric power is already widely used, while wind and
solar
energy are structurally sporadic and disparately available.
Global wind and
solar
energy capacity has tripled since 2009, and renewable energy now provides more than one-fifth of the world’s electricity supply.
The US could provide leadership by committing to spending 0.05% of its GDP exploring non-carbon-emitting energy technologies – wind, wave, or
solar
power – or capturing CO2 emissions from power plants.
The government is experimenting with carbon pricing, and investing heavily in low-carbon wind, solar, and nuclear energy.
To some, green growth evokes a countryside covered with windmills and urban roofs lined with
solar
panels.
Green and Galiana examine the state of non-carbon-based energy today – nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal, etc. – and find that, taken together, alternative energy sources would get us less than halfway toward a path of stable carbon emissions by 2050, and only a tiny fraction of the way toward stabilization by 2100.
We also need better ways to channel private money toward sustainable infrastructure, such as wind and
solar
power.
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