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Originally Posted by rubecube
What are people's opinions on Mark Jacobson? He's a huge proponent of renewable energy and it looked like he kind of clowned Brad Wall on Twitter. He's often quoted by Naomi Klein but he's not some fringe loon either as he's an engineering professor at Stanford.
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He's a hero to some who think 100% renewables are possible, others say he's a fraud because his plans are the most expensive and slowest way to decarbonize electricity (and the least likely to be successful).
For a glimpse of what his plans would mean, look to Germany. Huge investments in unreliable solar and wind combined with cuts in nuclear mean virtually no improvement in CO2 emissions from electricity generation and no possible pathway to decarbonization as it remains hugely dependent on coal, while France did it successfully with a nuclear push.