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By how much should we expect renewable energy to replace fossil fuels over the next 20 years?
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By how much should we expect renewable energy to replace fossil fuels over the next 20 years?
Matthew Rhodes
Managing Director
Encraft
The rules of the game must change fundamentally within the next decade, with a strong focus on demand management technologies and shifts in patterns of consumption to more re-use and recycling. This will make it much easier to replace fossil fuels with renewables, because it will reduce all the absolute targets, and for this reason I would expect 60% or ... Read more | Leave a comment
Posted on: 19th July 2010
Denis Tanguay
President and CEO
Canadian GeoExchange Coalition
Answering the question “by how much should we expect renewable energy to replace fossil fuels over the next 20 years” is almost impossible. First, because specialists in both the energy and the environment sectors do not even agree on what the basic definitions of renewable energies are. In many cases, for example, large hydroelectric projects are not considered renewable. Yet, ... Read more | Leave a comment
Posted on: 19th July 2010
David Hone
Senior Climate Change Adviser Group CO2
Shell International Petroleum Company
It is useful to reflect on a specific national example when considering this issue. The USA provides an interesting case study. In his recent speech to the nation on energy issues, President Obama referred to the huge level of resource that the United States was able to muster as it turned its industrial capacity to the production of military equipment ... Read more | Leave a comment
Posted on: 19th July 2010
Steve Bottomley
Head of Business Analytics
News International
The answer should be as much as possible. However, it will be easier to deploy RE in some areas than others with the UK suited to wind and tide sources while southern Europe is better suited to solar collection. A key issue for much of Europe is how to break dependence on gas for space heating which forms a significant ... Read more | Leave a comment
Posted on: 17th July 2010