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What Paul Krugman thinks about energy

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Trade economist, Nobel laureate in 2008 for his work on economic geography, professor emeritus at Princeton and the CUNY Graduate Center, and a New York Times columnist from 1999 to 2024. Now writes on Substack.

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

    Their wordsBut 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.

    ↗The Rise of Renewable Energypaulkrugman.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece

    Americapoliticsnuclear power

    Interesting

  3. Our readingRenewables now account for the bulk of the growth in electricity generation, whatever their opponents believe.

    Their wordsthere are many people who still refuse to believe that renewables can be practical even as renewables keep growing around the world, in fact accounting for the bulk of growth in electricity generation

    ↗The Rise of Renewable Energypaulkrugman.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece

    Interesting