Discovery: A Stanford professor has presented a plan to power all of the Golden States energy needs with renewable energy by 2050.
If implemented, this plan will eliminate air pollution mortality and global warming emissions from California, stabilize prices and create jobs -- there is little downside, said Mark Z. Jacobson, the studys lead author and a Stanford professor of civil and environmental engineering, in a press release.
It would take 25,000 onshore 5-megawatt wind turbines, 1,200 concentrated...