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The hard-headed realists who wrote America's 2001 energy policy expected renewables to stay trivial, and were wrong by an enormous margin.

Drawn from what Paul Krugman said

SubjectsenergyAmericapoliticsnuclear power
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politics How people actually hold political views: tribes, partisanship, and whether anybody reasons their way in.

nuclear power Fission as an energy source: what it costs, what it risks, and whether anything else can do the job.

On the topicHow cheap does solar get, and what does that change?under our view: The price falls a fixed amount with every doubling, and it has not stopped

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What Paul Krugman actually said

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  1. Paul Krugman

    Trade economist, Nobel laureate in 2008 for his work on…

    But politics aside, what’s notable about that 2001 report, put together by men who regarded themselves as hard-headed realists, is that it envisaged an energy future reliant almost entirely on fossil fuels plus a bit of nuclear energy.

    Where this was said

    ↗The Rise of Renewable Energypaulkrugman.substack.com

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