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How to have an all-renewable electric grid

  • Written by David Timmons, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston
An all-renewable grid will mean more electricity and more transmission lines.Russ Allison Loar/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

The main solution to climate change is well known – stop burning fossil fuels. How to do this is more complicated, but as a scholar who does energy modeling, I and others see the outlines of a post-fossil-fuel future: We make...

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