It's amazing that Stanford Prof Mark Z Jacobson fails to understand that sources annually generating 100% of a need ≠ sources annually generating needs 100% of the time.
Apart from the issues you have raised, there are some even more fundamental ones.
1. Who would manage this? Which international body would have the authority to co-ordinate it all?
2. Who would finance it? Which countries would pay more/less than their share. Which countries could afford it?
3. It cannot be done piecemeal because of interdependencies, so which nations will submit themselves to such an overarching programme of work? See 1, 2 and 3 above.
4. There is no materials schedule. What do we need? How much? When? Where do we get it from? Without that the "plan" is worthless.
There are many, many other very major issues, but one thing that is very apparent is that it can only ever be a "thought exercise".
It's amazing that Stanford Prof Mark Z Jacobson fails to understand that sources annually generating 100% of a need ≠ sources annually generating needs 100% of the time.
That reflects badly on Stanford.
Hello Ron, thank you.
MZJ's output is not the only thing that reflects badly on that institution:
"Stanford president to resign following findings of manipulation in academic research
By Nadia Bidarian, CNN
Updated 2:50 PM EDT, Wed July 19, 2023"
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/19/us/stanford-president-marc-tessier-lavigne-resigns/index.html
*** "manipulation in academic research" ***
The work of Jacobson cannot be taken seriously.
Apart from the issues you have raised, there are some even more fundamental ones.
1. Who would manage this? Which international body would have the authority to co-ordinate it all?
2. Who would finance it? Which countries would pay more/less than their share. Which countries could afford it?
3. It cannot be done piecemeal because of interdependencies, so which nations will submit themselves to such an overarching programme of work? See 1, 2 and 3 above.
4. There is no materials schedule. What do we need? How much? When? Where do we get it from? Without that the "plan" is worthless.
There are many, many other very major issues, but one thing that is very apparent is that it can only ever be a "thought exercise".
Thank you Toby.
The issues you raised are good ones, but how to definitively prove them? All we need is a World Government (Bill Gates, Klaus Whatshisface and so on)…
I decided to stick with verifiable facts and use the list MZJ himself provided to show where “WWS” is heading.