fossil fuels – Primal Group

Don’t Turn Up the Air Conditioning

More than the global debt levels, free trade and immigration, the threat of multi century droughts, rising sea levels and biodiversity’s sixth extinction should be top of the agenda for the world’s leaders. Yet even after four record-breaking debates for the US Presidential election with hundreds of millions of people watching from around the world, there was no mention of an issue that will reverberate for millennia – climate change.

Source: Grist Organization, 2016

Not only will the impact of climate change be seen in our own lifetime, but also for the next 100,000 years. Global warming over the 21^st Century will produce a climate not previously experienced by human civilizations.…

The Importance of Evolving Clean and Sustainable Energy Systems

We have the technology to power the entire planet by harnessing solar energy. Solar is in fact so powerful that it is in the best position to replace even traditional energy generation systems worldwide. What very few people know is that this breakthrough for renewables can even be achieved and fully implemented in a matter of thirty years.

The total global energy usage in 2015 ranging from coal, oil, hydroelectric, nuclear and renewables was 13,000 Million Ton Oil Equivalent, which translates to 17.3 Terawatts (TW) of continuous power during the year.

If we cover 335km² of land in the Great Saharan Desert with solar panels, even with moderate efficiencies easily achievable today, we will be able to generate more than 17.4 terawatts (TW) of power.…