A national energy model from NU, Cornell replaces carbon sources

Thanks to Mayher for sharing this!
NU and Cornell engineers have published a paper outlining how it is possible to build up an energy portfolio for the U.S. that does not rely on carbon-based energy sources. This type of paper, while not likely to be implemented by policymakers any time soon, is important because it provides a detailed roadmap of what is possible. It will take political and economic leaders to step up at some point and embrace such plans, because we must recognize there are financial concerns to build infrastructure while we are still in an era of large deficits at the national and most state budgets. For example, the federal deficit for this past fiscal year is effectively $1 trillion. But having plans and models such as this can become the talking points and eventual action plans in the (hopefully) not so distant future.