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Energy wonks have a meltdown over the US going 100 percent renewable. Why?

  • Written by Joshua D. Rhodes, Postdoctoral Researcher of Energy, University of Texas at Austin
imageYou may agree the U.S. should move to renewables, but how quickly can we do it and how? Duke Energy/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

Science is messy, but it doesn’t have to be dirty.

On June 19, a group of respected energy researchers released a paper in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that critiqued a widely cited study...

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