{"id":795,"date":"2022-09-26T17:59:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T17:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/degoedek\/?p=795"},"modified":"2022-09-26T17:59:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T17:59:59","slug":"goedestuff-getting-to-100-carbon-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/degoedek\/2022\/09\/26\/goedestuff-getting-to-100-carbon-free\/","title":{"rendered":"GoedeStuff: Getting to 100% Carbon Free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2022\/09\/the-pathway-to-90-clean-electricity-is-mostly-clear-the-last-10-not-so-much\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2022\/09\/the-pathway-to-90-clean-electricity-is-mostly-clear-the-last-10-not-so-much\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The United States gets about 40 percent of its electricity from carbon-free sources, including renewables and nuclear, and researchers have a pretty good idea of how to cost-effectively get to about 90 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that last 10 percent? It gets expensive, and there is little agreement about how to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2542435122004056?dgcid=author\">new paper in the journal Joule<\/a> identifies six approaches for achieving that last 10 percent, including a reliance on wind and solar, a build-out of nuclear power, and development of long-term energy storage using hydrogen.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2022\/09\/us-installs-record-solar-capacity-as-prices-keep-falling\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2022\/09\/us-installs-record-solar-capacity-as-prices-keep-falling\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s often cheaper to build and run solar than to buy gas for an existing plant.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2022\/09\/the-pathway-to-90-clean-electricity-is-mostly-clear-the-last-10-not-so-much\/ &#8220;The United States gets about 40 percent of its electricity from carbon-free sources, including renewables and nuclear, and researchers have a pretty good idea of how to cost-effectively get to about 90 percent. But that last 10 percent? It gets expensive, and there is little agreement about how to do it. A new paper &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/degoedek\/2022\/09\/26\/goedestuff-getting-to-100-carbon-free\/\"><span class=\"custom-more\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/degoedek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/degoedek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/degoedek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/degoedek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/degoedek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/degoedek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/degoedek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/degoedek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/degoedek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/degoedek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}