{"id":6336,"date":"2015-05-27T06:31:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T06:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6336"},"modified":"2015-05-27T06:31:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T06:31:07","slug":"renewables-and-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/05\/27\/renewables-and-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewables and the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few factoids:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Rooftop solar is growing worldwide by 50% per year. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>In 1985 solar cost $12 per watt, but today\u2019s prices are closer to 36 cents per watt. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Every five hours the world adds 23 MW of solar, which was the global installed capacity in 1985.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>In January 2014 Denmark got 62% of its electricity from wind. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>In 2013 Ireland got 17% of its electricity from wind, and Spain and Portugal both exceeded 20% from wind. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Today China gets more electricity from wind (91,000 MW) than it does from nuclear reactors.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>It\u00a0plans to have\u00a0\u00a0200 GW of renewable energy by 2020.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The United States is second in the world in installed wind turbines, with South Dakota and Iowa obtaining over 26% of their electricity from wind.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These come from <a href=\"http:\/\/steadystate.org\/progress-toward-a-true-cost-economy-now-comes-from-developments-in-renewable-energy\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DalyNews+%28The+Daly+News%29\">The Daly News<\/a> a few days ago. \u00a0The post concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"Those who are serious about getting to a true\u2013cost economy should help accelerate the renewable energy revolution as a way to achieve it.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A footnote directs us to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2015\/04\/21\/energy-transition-underway\/\">The Great Transition<\/a> by Lester Brown and colleagues at the Earth Policy Institute for \"a superb account of the global renewable energy revolution that offers hope to all.\" \u00a0I'm pleased to say that <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/03\/04\/update-on-semington-a-b-c-d\/\">Semington A<\/a><\/em>\u00a0continues to contribute to this trend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few factoids: Rooftop solar is growing worldwide by 50% per year. In 1985 solar cost $12 per watt, but today\u2019s prices are closer to 36 cents per watt. Every five hours the world adds 23 MW of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}