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Four cheap solutions to climate change

Edouard Stenger

I have been advocating this since the writing of my Master’s thesis at Audencia all the way back to 2006. Any energy use entails carbon emissions, some more than others. Meanwhile, Lazard, a leading financial advisory and asset management firm, reports that wind power costs were down 66 percent from 2009 to 2016.

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

And, indeed, while wind turbines north of Texas functioned more or less as intended, during the cold snap, they produced very little power for their grids. [11] 11] Part of the reason for inadequate in-state electricity supply in California last August was that state regulators had closed in-state baseload power plants.