Climate, pollution, clean/renewable energy
Stanford U Prof, Civil & Env Eng; Director, Atmos/Energy Program
Cofounder-Solutions Project; Appeared on Letterman
Testified Held v Montana
https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/
Stanford.io/Jacobson ..
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Climate, pollution, clean/renewable energy
Stanford U Prof, Civil & Env Eng; Director, Atmos/Energy Program
Cofounder-Solutions Project; Appeared on Letterman
Testified Held v Montana
https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/
Stanford.io/Jacobson
Mark Zachary Jacobson is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University and director of its Atmosphere/Energy Program. He is also a co-founder of the non-profit, Solutions Project. .. more
Fri Jan 9, battery discharging a record 48.14 GWh (8.57% of demand) & battery charging a record 53.96 GWh
Discharging equiv to 12.04 GW of 4-h bat but spread over most of night, showing how 4-h batteries provide long-duration storage
Reposted by Juan Cole
Azerbaijan Launches Largest Wind Power Plant in Caucasus (240 MW)
astanatimes.com/2026/01/azer...
Gas down 68% vs '23
Demand down 3% v '23
Batteries up 270% v '23
WWS up 25% v '23
Reposted by Mark Z. Jacobson
Honey, "just not fast enough" doesn't begin to describe the situation. If we don't transition before 2148, we're all going to be dead.
Reposted by Juan Cole
Main barriers to the US achieving a buildout as fast as China’s “are social and political, not technical or economic”
pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/01/09/u...
Paper
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Solar surpassed lignite coal to become #2
solarquarter.com/2026/01/06/s...