{"id":323,"date":"2007-09-14T20:30:56","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T20:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/solar-energy-to-represent-a-quarter-of-human-demand-by-2050\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:54:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:54:56","slug":"solar-energy-to-represent-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/solar-energy-to-represent-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar energy to &#8216;represent a quarter of human demand by 2050&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right off\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/solar-space.jpg\">Martin Green, the Australian scientist and winner of the &#8220;Alternative Nobel Prize,&#8221; has predicted solar energy will meet a quarter of human&#8217;s kind&#8217;s energy demand by 2050, wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2007-09\/13\/content_6719893.htm\">China View<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Green argues that &#8216;energy transition&#8217; is the best solution to offset the damage caused by fossil fuel and that the number of coal-fired power plants could be cut by 15 percent around the world with the application of solar heating.<\/p>\n<p>The article came out of a meeting held in Beijing between nine Nobel laureates and five world-renowned scientists, including Robert Mundell, Edmund Phelps, Richard Schrock and Thomas Schelling. The event closed today and was used as a forum to discuss &#8220;energy efficiency, solar energy and its market development, global warming and the reduction in greenhouse gases&#8221; with 600 Chinese scientists, officials and experts.<\/p>\n<p>For further information on the Right Livelihood Award, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightlivelihood.org\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Green, the Australian scientist and winner of the &#8220;Alternative Nobel Prize,&#8221; has predicted solar energy will meet a quarter of human&#8217;s kind&#8217;s energy demand by 2050, wrote China View. Green argues that &#8216;energy transition&#8217; is the best solution to offset the damage caused by fossil fuel and that the number of coal-fired power plants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photovoltaic-solar-power","category-solar-power"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10030,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/10030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}