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Renewables Can Meet Most Of Our Electricity Needs*

Picture of a wind farm
Philipp Hertzog/Wikimedia Commons

The sun shines and the wind blows, and we can make electricity from those events. 

In fact, a recent study says that up to 80 percent of our electricity needs could be met by these renewable forms of energy.  But there's a catch: we'd have to find ways to store the energy they create--think batteries or something else--until the demand required it. 

Ken Caldeira at the Carnegie Institution for Science co-authored the report.  He is our guest.  

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.
April Ehrlich is an editor and reporter at Oregon Public Broadcasting. Prior to joining OPB, she was a news host and regional reporter at Jefferson Public Radio.