Every year new sources of clean energy and technologies are created. New, innovative technologies in the field of renewable energy are being created. The existing technologies of renewable energy sources have been successively improved in the direction of creating more and more economically efficient and energy-saving technological solutions. New patents and innovative technological solutions are being created. New types of materials used in new energy sources devices are being discovered. The main determinant of technological progress in this field should be the process of implementing the most energy-saving technologies on the industrial scale and promoted for industrial implementation and the transport sector should be sources of energy under RES that will emit the least harmful external effects to the planet Earth environment.
In view of the above, the current question is: Will man manage to create and develop on a mass scale in industry and energy innovative technologies of renewable energy sources, through which will stop the greenhouse effect on Earth?
Please, answer, comments. I invite you to the discussion.
We will have to develop renewable energy technologies on a much larger scale than at present. One question is whether or not we have sufficient time--for electricity, the share of renewable energy has risen very slowly in recent decades. There are other problems. Renewable energy sources have their own environmental challenges, and being land-intensive can conflict with other land uses; this is especially the case for bio-energy. Another problem is their energy return on energy invested, which is much lower that for fossil fuels. I believe that for effective climate change mitigation, we will have to move to renewable energy, but will also have to greatly reduce global energy consumption.
Everybody wants to encourage renewables must introduce it within the economic context. Otherwise, few could be interested. Nobody cares for the green house effect for free !
Absolute clean electricity generation via 'Solar', 'Wind' & 'Hydro' reduces greenhouse effect
Humans already created technologies that can do what you hope, but humans have not created a financial system that responds in a timely fashion to future threats. In engineering terms, the financial system is a failure as a predictive mechanism, it can only respond to pain, i.e. It's a PID network with very weak I and D terms. So the short answer is humans will do nothing of consequence until they are dying in large numbers, that is the only thing that gets their attention. This is not a criticism, it is simply a statement of fact, and it is the same way most of the 'lower' mammals behave.
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