Has Europe Found a Way To Replace Fossil Fuels?

AlterNet by Paul Rodgers | Dec. 6, 2007 (News Report)

An audacious proposal to build a 5,000-mile electricity supergrid, stretching from Siberia to Morocco and Egypt to Iceland, would slash Europe's CO2 emissions by a quarter, scientists say.

The scheme would make the use of renewable energy, particularly wind power, so reliable and cheap that it would replace fossil fuels on an unprecedented scale, serving 1.1 billion people in 50 countries. Europe's 1.25bn tons of annual CO2 output from electricity ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Beth Jones - Feb 15, 2008 - 8:45 AM PST
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 by Beth Jones - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a mere compilation of (some of) the info about the (British) case -- so it seems more truncated than necessary. What it does not state (because of the UK slant), is that other, more in-depth articles about renewable electricity research done by the German physicist Gregor Czisch note that the U.S. is in an even better position than Europe to make the AC>DC switch successfully and save energy & CO2.

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