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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

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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.

How 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

What Paul Krugman actually said

  1. Paul Krugman Trade economist, Nobel laureate in 2008 for his work…
    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.

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