In his extensive energy policy report, Mark Z.

Jacobson accompanied by Mark

A. Delucchi analyzes the steps required to produce all new energy with the means of
wind, water, and solar renewables by the year 2030, as well as replacing all preexisting energy with WWS by 2050. This leap towards a clean energy supply is
mainly being held back by social and political barriers, as outlined in the
introduction of the report, which in turn means that the technology and economic
support is already present and ready to be applied towards a final solution. The end
all solution as mentioned within the report suggests that approximately 3,800,500 5
MW wind turbines, 49,000 300 MW concentrated solar plants, 40,000 300 MW solar
PV power plants, 1.7 billion 3 kW rooftop PV systems, 5350 100 MW geothermal
power plants, 270 new 1300 MW hydroelectric power plants, 720,000 0.75 MW
wave devices, and 490,000 1 MW tidal turbines be installed to keep up with 100% of
the countries estimated power demand in 2030. The facilities and infrastructure
needed to house these means would also lessen the power needed to meet
demands by 30% while only requiring an additional approximate of 1% of land to
make up for footprint and spacing. This reduced power demand can mainly be
attributed to the fact that the energy produced by WWS is more efficient than that
of internal combustion. Jacobson also delivers solutions to fill in the gaps made by
potential unreliability in the new system. The numerous amounts of backup
solutions include; interconnect dispersed generators, the use of complementary and
non-variable sources, the use of smart demand-response management to shift
flexible loads in accordance to demand, the storing of electric power at the sites of
multiple generators, the oversizing of generation within the WWS system, and
forecasting weather to better plan energy supply. There are however several cons
that reside with these solutions as well. Although a few of these proposed solutions
require little to no additional funding and will be implemented whenever possible,
there are still a couple of alternatives that need extra costs to function. Along with
these further applied costs, Jacobson also mentions that no matter how often these
solutions are applied, there is still no guarantee that the WWS system will be
reliable enough to match the power demand in some regions of the world at certain
times. In conclusion it is believe that this new method put forward by both Jacobson
and Delucchi is extremely feasible as the pros of the WWS system heavily
outweighs the cons.