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$44 Trillion Needed for Clean Energy Future

posted by Woods on Thursday May 15 2014, @08:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the everyone-check-your-mattress dept.

AnonTechie writes:

The global cost of securing a clean energy future is rising by the year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned Monday, estimating that an additional $44 trillion of investment was needed to meet 2050 carbon reduction targets. Releasing its biennial "Energy Technology Perspectives" report in Seoul, the agency said electricity would increasingly power the world's economies in the decades to come, rivalling oil as the dominant energy carrier. Surging electricity demand posed serious challenges, said IEA executive director Maria van der Hoeven.
"We must get it right, but we're on the wrong path at the moment," Van der Hoeven told reporters in the South Korean capital.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by EvilJim on Friday May 16 2014, @03:00AM

    by EvilJim (2501) on Friday May 16 2014, @03:00AM (#44080) Journal

    haha, yeah, I've heard they cook with the explosives... :)I just did some mental gymnastics and leaps of logic and it would only take 50g of metallic lead in 500g dirt to be equivalent to typical lead ore (wiki actually says less than 10%) but then you also have the benefit of not having to convert it to metal and separate the other metals from it that are usually in lead ore, so dunno, there might be some deposits in heavily fought over areas worth something.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead#Occurrence [wikipedia.org]

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