At TEAC8, Mike Conley and Timothy Maloney gave a presentation on Mark Z. Jacobson's "100% Clean and Renewable Wind, Water, and Sunlight (WWS) All-Sector Energy Roadmap".
TEAC8 was August of 2017. Jacobson's lawsuit against Chris Clack was launched in November. So the lawsuit is outside the scope of Mike & Tim's talk, but I'm very happy to help line up this video as the lawsuit moves forward.
For the general public, Jacobson is a guy with video presence. You can watch him reassure you that 100% WWS is doable-and-practical in all sorts of online videos (and cable-TV talk shows for that matter). We need simple stuff to break through.
And at the moment I'd say Jacobson has an incredible advantage... for all the criticisms leveled at Jacobson, very few are in video format.
Scientific American, The Verge, ACSH all offer insightful prose on this, but we need to supplement that with video, for people only searching for video content on the controversy or on 100% WWS in general. Hopefully that can lead them to meatier stuff such as Roadmap To Nowhere, the actual document.
For example, VOX and Scientific America have produced many-a 100% Renewable video explainer. There is no video summary explaining this lawsuit. Nor, so far as I can tell, even video explainers on the criticisms leveled against Jacobson by 21 experts in the field of energy.
Mike and Tim's "Roadmap to Nowhere" offers an easy-to-understand comparison between a nuclear path, and Jacobson's. And it does so with a few simple concepts worth highlighting here...
- Renewables are INTER-dependent. Nuclear power is IN-dependent.
- Fuel is storage, yet "100% Renewables" is a fuel-free system.
- We must transition to carbon-free fuels, not a fuel-free paradigm.
...their work can be read in full at RoadmapToNowhere.com as web-browser friendly HTML and downloadable PDF.
This is the one. For 2017.
I hope you all have a great New Years, and 2018.
As always, appreciating your support.
My friend Blaise told me my updates were too long to read. So I'll end it here. (An experiment to see how far he'll read.)