Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Roumasset, James A.; Tse, Kinping - 2014
, estimated reserves, and energy demand data for the world economy. It is shown that if historical rates of cost reduction in the … production of solar energy are maintained, more than 90 percent of the world's coal will never be used. The world will move from … oil and natural gas use to solar energy. Global temperatures will rise by only about 1.5 2 degrees centigrade by the …