The Clean Energy Challenge

Scientists warn that meeting energy needs while preventing global warming will require a research effort of a magnitude on par with the project to put man on the moon.

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November 5, 2002, 11:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"To supply energy needs 50 years from now without further influencing the climate, up to three times the total amount of energy now generated using coal, oil, and other fossil fuels will have to be produced using methods that generate no heat-trapping greenhouse gases, the scientists said in today's issue of the journal Science. In addition, they said, the use of fossil fuels will have to decline, and to achieve these goals research will have to begin immediately."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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