He would use $15 billion a year from those proceeds to promote non-polluting energy sources and cut energy waste.
There are two ways to change that equation — raising the price of carbon-rich fuels globally or lowering the cost of non-polluting energy sources.
Still, more than four dozen scientists, economists, engineers and entrepreneurs interviewed by The New York Times said that unless the search for abundant non-polluting energy sources and systems became far more aggressive, the world would probably face dangerous warming and international strife as nations with growing energy demands compete for increasingly inadequate resources.
– The world is not remotely engaged in the energy quest that would be required to refine and demonstrate, at large scale, non-polluting energy sources and systems and make them cheap enough to disseminate in places where energy demand is rising fastest (China, India).
While three-quarters of that cut has been achieved, mainly because of the run-down of coal use, forecasts show emissions going up again because of increasing road traffic.Ministers say they expect the electricity gap left by Magnox to be filled mainly by renewable non-polluting energy sources, such as wind power.
This new public-private partnership will invest €1 billion into research on renewable and non-polluting energy sources for road transport, with a strong emphasis on electrical vehicles.
We need to reallocate military budget to improving education and health care and helping to change over our energy system from one based on fossil fuels to one based on renewable non-polluting energy sources.
By now EUR 5 billion (EUR 4 billion are provided as loans through the European Investment Bank) have been made available for the support of R&D on technologies and infrastructures that are essential for achieving 'breakthroughs' in the use of renewable and non-polluting energy sources, safety and traffic fluidity.
Despite negative publicity for fossil fuels (coal mine disasters, costly oil spills, mountaintop removals, loss of clean water from fracking and high prices at the pump), Flintstonians are invested, often quite literally, in fossil fuels and they fear economic upheaval in the transition to sustainable, non-polluting energy sources.
