The Global Potential for Renewable Energy

The Global Potential for Renewable Energy
The article What is the global potential for renewable energy? by Patrick Moriarty and Damon Honnery provides a look into the global energy situation. The article talks about the energy requirements of the globe and the capacity of the energy demands to be sustained by the various energy sources, especially renewable ones. The authors paint a rather bleak future on the ability of renewable energy sources to bridge the energy gap created by the fast fading fossil fuels and try developing a new discourse about the same.
Critique
The article has achieved quite a lot of its objectives. The research utilizes several energy derivatives hinged upon historical data for several countries. The catch, however, comes in the prediction about future energy use. Renewable energy use greatly depends on nature. Nature itself is being affected by climate change, which automatically affects renewable energy. There is also a high likelihood that as ...