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Bitter scientific debate erupts over the future of America’s power grid

Scientists are engaged in an increasingly bitter and personal feud over how much of the United States’ power it can get from renewable sources, with a large group of scientists taking aim at a popular recent paper that claimed the country could move beyond fossil fuels entirely by 2055.

In 2015, Stanford professor Mark Jacobson and his colleagues argued that between 2050 and 2055, the U.S. could be entirely powered by "clean" energy sources and "no natural gas, biofuels, nuclear power, or stationary batteries are needed."

Chris Mooney – Washington Post

Full Story: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-power-grid-debate-20170620-story.html

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