subject: Solar And Wind Energy Will Become The Main [print this page] University of California, Santa Barbara scientist and 1998 Nobel Chemistry Prize winner Walter Kohn 24, said that with the human development of renewable energy sources continued in-depth, solar and wind can become the world's primary energy.
Cohen that day annual meeting of the American Chemical Society, said humanity for alternative energy research and development to create a sustainable "new era." In this "new era", the solar wind can become the world's primary energy.
Cohen predicted that the supply of oil and natural gas in the next 10 to 30 years peaked rapidly after the reduction will be replaced by solar and wind power and other renewable energy sources. Currently, oil and natural gas account for about 60% of global energy consumption.
Cohen's analysis that the global energy development trends have brought "two unprecedented global challenge", a global energy shortage facing the acceptable, the other is global warming and its consequences to human-induced threats. Humans should take various measures to address these challenges, such as promotion of science and technology, in order to develop abundant, cheap, safe, clean and carbon-free alternative energy.
He said that over the past 10 years, the global solar photovoltaic power generation increased by about 90 times, wind power generation increased by about 10 times. The next 10 years and even longer in the future, both with the inexhaustible source of energy will remain strong growth momentum, this will bring solar and wind-dominated "new era."
He called on those basic trends of population stable developed countries, especially the United States should reduce per capita energy consumption. Currently, the U.S. per capita energy consumption is about 5 times the global average.
