Updated edition describes how individuals and communities can solve the climate crisis, reduce air pollution, and secure energy supplies.

What if we don't need 'miracle technologies' to solve the climate problem? What if the technologies we need are already available? And what if we can use those existing technologies to ensure reliable electricity, heat supplies, and energy security? In a revised and updated edition of his award-winning climate bestseller, No Miracles Needed, the world's premier thinker on energy futures and 'one of the world's 100 most influential people in climate policy', Mark Z. Jacobson reveals how nations, communities, and individuals can solve the climate crisis most effectively, while simultaneously eliminating air pollution and providing energy security. Mark explains how existing technologies can harness, store, and transmit energy from wind, water, and solar sources to ensure reliable electricity and heat supplies. It includes new, cutting-edge technologies, additional new real-life case-studies about the solutions, and additional references. Written for everyone who cares about the future of our planet, this book advises individuals, policymakers, communities, and nations about what they can do to solve the problems identified, and the economic, health, and climate benefits of the solutions.

Autorentext
Mark Z. Jacobson is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program at Stanford University. He has published seven books and 190 papers. He received the 2018 Judi Friedman Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2022, he was ranked the world's most impactful scientist in the field of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences and the sixth-most impactful scientist in the field of Energy among those first publishing past 1985. In 2023, he was named one of Worth Magazine's top 100 people globally 'who have made an impact on the world this year.' He was an expert witness in the first US climate case to have won at trial, Held v. Montana, and the first world climate case to have settled, Navahine v. Hawaii. He has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman and cofounded The Solutions Project. His work is the scientific basis of the Green New Deal and 100 percent renewable energy laws worldwide.

Inhalt

Foreword; Preface; 1. What problems are we trying to solve?; 2. WWS solutions for electricity generation; 3. WWS solutions for electricity storage; 4. WWS solutions for transportation; 5. WWS solutions for buildings; 6. WWS solutions for industry; 7. Solutions for nonenergy emissions; 8. What doesn't help; 9. Electricity grids; 10. Photovoltaics and solar radiation; 11. Onshore and offshore wind energy; 12. Steps in developing 100 percent WWS roadmaps; 13. Keeping the grid stable with 100 percent WWS; 14. Timeline and policies needed to transition; 15. My journey.