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Thu May-05-11 02:27 PM
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6. So even in the most optomistic scenario... Jacobsen was dead wrong?

What a shocker!

Most of the 164 scenarios showed renewable energies would rise to supply above 100 exajoules (EJ) a year by 2050, reaching 200-400 EJ a year in many scenarios. That is up from 64 EJ in 2008, when world supply was 492 EJ, it said.

Demand for 2050 is projected to be 900-1,000 EJs. So even in the most optomistic projection (400 EJ), the world still need more generation from other sources than it currently gets from all sources combined. If nuclear is off the table, where do you think that's going to come from?

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