Clean energy would thrill Carl Sagan [letter] | Letters To The Editor

The July 1 letter “Wondering what Sagan would think” asked what Carl Sagan would say “about wind turbines, solar fields and batteries powering a thriving industrial economy, virtually for free.”Sagan was a brilliant scientist, and I’m sure he would have followed the most exciting developments and projections by other renowned scientists in the field of clean energy. Stanford’s Mark Jacobson comes to mind, along with thousands of other scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and similar colleges.No doubt he’d be amazed to see the breakthroughs that have dramatically lowered the cost of solar and wind energy every year for decades. It’s a process that continues today, making solar and wind, with their accompanying storage…

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