Martin Green, the Australian scientist and winner of the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” has predicted solar energy will meet a quarter of human’s kind’s energy demand by 2050, wrote China View.
Green argues that ‘energy transition’ 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.
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 “energy efficiency, solar energy and its market development, global warming and the reduction in greenhouse gases” with 600 Chinese scientists, officials and experts.
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