Response to 'A critique of Jacobson and Delucchi's proposals for a world renewable energy supply' by Ted Trainer

摘要

Ted Trainer's "A critique of Jacobson and Delucchi's proposals for a world renewable energy supply" (hereafter T11), directed at our two Energy Policy articles "Providing all global energy with' wind, water, and solar power, Part I: Technologies, energy resources, quantities and areas of infrastructure, and materials" (hereafter JD11) and "Providing all global energy with wind, water, and solar power, Part II: Reliability, system and transmission costs, and policies"rn(1) that JD11 and DJ11 do "not deal effectively with the problems set by the variability of renewable energy sources," andrn(2) that the JD11/DJ11 "analysis of investment costs is inadequate."