That was the panel consensus this week at the “The Road to 100 Percent: Opportunities and Challenges in the Transition to a Fully Renewable Energy Society,” held in Massachusetts.
“The road to 100 percent renewable is finally achievable because of a confluence of lower prices for solar and wind and increasingly greater access to all electric transportation,” said Sanjeev Mukerjee, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern University and faculty director of the Northeastern University Center for Renewable Energy Technology.
So why don't we move to renewables immediately? Politics. It takes effort to get the whole USA rowing in the same direction, as well as smart policy and investment of capital. But it can be done! The tools are there.
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