Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

We need to respect our grid authorities. In both Texas and in California, the expert authority, the grid operators, the scientists and engineers who knew what was needed, were overridden by political appointees. Stabilizing grid with 100% renewables 2050 Mark Z. Jacobson, Mark A. Delucchi, Mary A.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

2] Over the last 25 years, increasingly decentralized electricity generation in restructured electricity markets, along with growth in the number of regulatory institutions, has resulted in “divergent interests of federal, state, regional and local authorities,” wrote the Academies in the 2021 report. Telephone Interview with the author.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The authors of a book on DAC conclude: “Deployment of direct air capture on any significant scale. Jacobson, Senior Fellow at Stanford and author of the study. requires significant infrastructure, energy and land.” Total investments in large-scale removal would range between $100 billion per year and $500 billion per year.

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