IN THE DARK
Endnotes
This is a linked list of the 122 sources cited in In The Dark by Brian Gitt.
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CHAPTER 2
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U.S. Energy Information Administration, "Carbon Emissions" EIA.gov, December 2022 https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/carbon/
U.S. Energy Information Administration, “Today in Energy” April 2023 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=48296
Hannah Ritchie, Max Roser and Pablo Rosado, "CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions" OurWorldInData.org, 2020, https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions
World Bank Group, "10 Things You Didn't Know About the World Bank Group's Work on Climate" Worldbank.org, October 2021 https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/factsheet/2021/10/29/10-things-you-didn-t-know-about-the-world-bank-group-s-work-on-climate
BBC News, “European Investment Bank drops fossil fuel funding” BBC.com, November 2019, https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50427873
CHAPTER 3
California Public Utilities Commission, “California Long Term Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan” September 2008 https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cpuc-website/files/legacyfiles/e/5305-eestrategicplan.pdf
U.S. Census Bureau, “QuickFacts California” Census.gov, July 2021 https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/CA/PST045221
U.S. Energy Information Administration, “Today in Energy” EIA.gov, April 2023 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=48296
United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, “Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2020” Frankfurt School-UNEP Centre/BNEF, 2020 https://www.fs-unep-centre.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/GTR_2020.pdf
Hannah Ritchie, Max Roser and Pablo Rosado, "Energy" OurWorldInData.org, 2022 'https://ourworldindata.org/energy
Hannah Ritchie, “What are the safest and cleanest sources of energy?” OurWorldInData.org, February 2020 https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy.
CHAPTER 4
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “The future of food and agriculture – Alternative pathways to 2050” 2018 https://www.fao.org/3/I8429EN/i8429en.pdf
Prof Qi Zhao, PhD, “Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modeling study” The Lancet, July 2021 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00081-4/fulltext
Hannah Ritchie, Pablo Rosado and Max Roser, "Natural Disasters" OurWorldInData.org, 2022 https://ourworldindata.org/natural-disasters
Bjorn Lomborg, “Welfare in the 21st century: Increasing development, reducing inequality, the impact of climate change, and the cost of climate policies, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, July 2020, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162520304157
CHAPTER 5
Michael Shellenberger, "The Reason Renewables Can't Power Modern Civilization Is Because They Were Never Meant To" Forbes.com, May 2019, https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/06/the-reason-renewables-cant-power-modern-civilization-is-because-they-were-never-meant-to/?sh=917bcadea2b9
Our World in Data. “Primary Energy Consumption by Source, Germany” OurWorldInData.org, 2021 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/primary-energy-source-bar?country=~DEU
Josefine Fokuhl and Todd Gillespie, "Germany Returns to Coal as Energy Security Trumps Climate Goals," Bloomberg.com, December 2022, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-22/germany-returns-to-coal-as-energy-security-trumps-climate-goals.
Sören Amelang, “Industry power prices in Germany: Extremely high – and low”, Cleanenergywire.org, December 2019 https://www.cleanenergywire.org/industrial-power-prices-and-energiewende
John O'Donnell and Christoph Steitz, “Germany set to assume $230 billion in Uniper derivatives” Reuters.com, Dec 2022 https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germany-set-assume-230-billion-uniper-derivatives-2022-12-16/
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California Energy Commission, “California Releases Report Charting Path to 100 Percent Clean Electricity” Energy.ca.gov, March 2021 https://www.energy.ca.gov/news/2021-03/california-releases-report-charting-path-100-percent-clean-electricity
California Air Resource Board, “Senate Bill 846 (Dodd, Bill), Diablo Canyon Powerplant: Extension of Operations (Chaptered)” ww2.arb.ca.gov, 2022 https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/2022-senate-bill-846-dodd-bill-diablo-canyon-powerplant-extension-operations-chaptered
Pacific Gas & Electric, Diablo Canyon Power Plant, pge.com https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/how-the-system-works/diablo-canyon-power-plant/about-the-diablo-canyon-power-plant.page#:~:text=The%20two%20units%20produce%20a,provides%20throughout%20its%20service%20area)
Tom DiChristopher, “Gas Ban Monitor: Calif. count reaches 50 as West Coast movement grows” spglobal.com, November 2021 https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/gas-ban-monitor-calif-count-reaches-50-as-west-coast-movement-grows-67732585
Robert Bryce, “The High Cost of California Electricity Is Increasing Poverty” FREOPP.org, July 2020, https://freopp.org/the-high-cost-of-california-electricity-is-increasing-poverty-d7bc4021b705
Robert Bryce, “California Screamin” robertbryce.substack.com, March 2023 https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/california-screamin
California Department of Community Services & Development, “California Issues $647 Million to Cover Overdue Utility Bills for 1.4 Million Households” csd.ca.gov, November 2022 https://www.csd.ca.gov/Pages/Press-Release-California-Issues-$647-Million-to-Cover-Overdue-Utility-Bills-for-1-4-Million-Households.aspx
California Independent Systems Operator, “Final Root Cause Analysis Mid August 2020 Extreme Heat Wave” caiso.com, January 2021 http://www.caiso.com/Documents/Final-Root-Cause-Analysis-Mid-August-2020-Extreme-Heat-Wave.pdf
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy, “Reasons Why Nuclear is Clean and Sustainable” Energy.gov, March 2021 https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/3-reasons-why-nuclear-clean-and-sustainable
Department of Energy, “Quadrennial Technology Review An Assessment Of Energy Technologies And Research Opportunities, Chapter 10: Concepts in Integrated Analysis”, page 390, Energy.gov, September 2015 https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/03/f34/qtr-2015-chapter10.pdf
International Energy Agency, “Special Report on Solar PV Global Supply Chains” iea.blob.core.windows.net, July 2022 https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/4eedd256-b3db-4bc6-b5aa-2711ddfc1f90/SpecialReportonSolarPVGlobalSupplyChains.pdf
Rachel Kisela, “California went big on rooftop solar. Now that’s a problem for landfills,” latimes.com, July 2022 https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-07-14/california-rooftop-solar-pv-panels-recycling-danger
U.S. Energy Information Administration, “U.S. Crude Oil and Natural Gas Proved Reserves, Year-end 2021” eia.gov, 2021 https://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/crudeoilreserves/
California Energy Commission, “Foreign Sources of Crude Oil Imports to California 2022” energy.ca.gov, 2022 https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/californias-petroleum-market/foreign-sources-crude-oil-imports
California Energy Commission, “Foreign Sources of Crude Oil Imports to California 2022” energy.ca.gov, 2022 https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/californias-petroleum-market/foreign-sources-crude-oil-imports
Rich Schapiro, Christine Romo and Santiago Cornejo, “Crude reality: One U.S. state consumes half the oil from the Amazon rainforest” nbcnews.com, December 2021 https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/crude-reality-one-us-state-consumes-half-oil-amazon-rainforest-rcna7284
CHAPTER 7
Our World in Data, “Share of Electricity Production from Nuclear” ourworldindata.org, 2022 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-nuclear?tab=chart&country=~FRA
Our World in Data, “Electricity production by source, United States” ourworldindata.org, 2021 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-stacked?tab=chart&country=~USA
U.S. Energy Information Administration, “Domestic Uranium Production Report - Quarterly” eia.gov, February 2023 https://www.eia.gov/uranium/production/quarterly/
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy, “5 Fast Facts about Spent Nuclear Fuel”, energy.gov, October 2022 https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-nuclear-fuel
U.S. Government Accountability Office, “Nuclear Waste Disposal” gao.gov, https://www.gao.gov/nuclear-waste-disposal
Sonal Patel, “Oklo Readying to Deploy Commercial-Scale Nuclear Fuel Recycling Facility” Powermag.com, January 2023 https://www.powermag.com/oklo-readying-to-deploy-commercial-scale-nuclear-fuel-recycling-facility/
International Energy Agency, “Special Report on Solar PV Global Supply Chains” iea.blob.core.windows.net, July 2022 https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/4eedd256-b3db-4bc6-b5aa-2711ddfc1f90/SpecialReportonSolarPVGlobalSupplyChains.pdf
Sha Hua and Phred Dvorak, “New China Rule Threatens to Disrupt U.S. Solar Ambitions” wsj.com, January 2023 https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-china-rule-threatens-to-disrupt-u-s-solar-ambitions-11675173199
U.S. Energy Information Administration, “Domestic Uranium Production Report - Quarterly” eia.gov, February 2023 https://www.eia.gov/uranium/production/quarterly/
Reve “China takes up 7 spots among the world’s top 10 wind turbine manufacturers for wind power” evwind.es, March 2021 https://www.evwind.es/2021/03/13/china-takes-up-7-spots-among-the-worlds-top-10-wind-turbine-manufacturers-for-wind-power/79787
Jamil Hijazi and James Kennedy, “Caught between rare earths and Chinese dominance — Part 3: Metal is the only thing that matters” mining.com, April 2021 https://www.mining.com/caught-between-rare-earths-and-chinese-dominance-the-story-behind-everything-no-one-is-telling-you-part-three/
The White House, “Building Resilient Supply Chains, Revitalizing American Manufacturing, and Fostering Broad-Based Growth 100-Day Reviews under Executive Order 14017” page 87, whitehouse.gov, June 2021 https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/100-day-supply-chain-review-report.pdf
CHAPTER 8
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy, “Nuclear Power is the Most Reliable Energy Source and It's Not Even Close” Energy.gov, March 2021 https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nuclear-power-most-reliable-energy-source-and-its-not-even-close
Robert Bryce, “This One ERCOT Chart Explains Why Texas Is Having Electricity Shortages” realclearenergy.org, July 2022 https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/07/24/this_one_ercot_chart_explains_why_texas_is_having_electricity_shortages_843990.html
Oliver Ruhnau and Staffan Qvist, “Storage requirements in a 100% renewable electricity system: extreme events and inter-annual variability” iopscience.iop.org, March 2022 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac4dc8
North American Electric Reliability Corporation, “ Risk Profile #1: Changing Resource Mix” nerc.com https://www.nerc.com/comm/RISC/Documents/All%20profiles.pdf
CHAPTER 9
U.S. Energy Information Administration, “Capital Cost and Performance Characteristic Estimates for Utility Scale Electric Power Generating Technologies” eia.gov, February 2020 https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/powerplants/capitalcost/pdf/capital_cost_AEO2020.pdf
U.S. Energy Information Administration, “Capital Cost and Performance Characteristic Estimates for Utility Scale Electric Power Generating Technologies” eia.gov, February 2020 https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/powerplants/capitalcost/pdf/capital_cost_AEO2020.pdf
Solar Energy Industries Association, “Water Use Management” seia.org https://www.seia.org/initiatives/water-use-management
Gordon Hughes, “Costs, Performance and Investment Returns for Wind Power” School of Economics, University of Edinburgh, ref.org.uk, June 2021 https://ref.org.uk/ref-blog/369-costs-performance-and-investment-returns-for-wind-power-presentation
U.S. Energy Information Administration, “EIA study examines the role of high-voltage power lines in integrating renewables” eia.gov, June 2018 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=36393
U.S. Energy Information Administration, “EIA study examines the role of high-voltage power lines in integrating renewables” eia.gov, June 2018 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=36393
Southern California Edison, “Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project” sce.com https://www.sce.com/about-us/reliability/upgrading-transmission/TRTP-4-11
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Electricity, “DOE Launches New Initiative From President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law To Modernize National Grid” Energy.gov, January 2022 https://www.energy.gov/oe/articles/doe-launches-new-initiative-president-bidens-bipartisan-infrastructure-law-modernize
Hansen, W. Jenson, A. Wrobel (INL), N. Stauff, K. Biegel, T. Kim (ANL), R. Belles, F. Omitaomu (ORNL), “Investigating Benefits and Challenges of Converting Retiring Coal Plants into Nuclear Plants” Prepared for U.S. Department of Energy Systems Analysis and Integration, fuelcycleoptions.inl.gov, September 2022 https://fuelcycleoptions.inl.gov/SiteAssets/SitePages/Home/C2N2022Report.pdf
Dr Jody Muelaner, “Grid Frequency Stability and Renewable Power” Engineering.com, February 2021 https://www.engineering.com/story/grid-frequency-stability-and-renewable-power
Paul Deaver, Mark Kootstra, Rachel MacDonald, Siva Gunda, Drew Bohan, “Updating Thermal Power Plant Efficiency Measures and Operational Characteristics for Production Cost Modeling” California Energy Commission, energy.ca.gov, January 2019 https://www.energy.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2021-06/CEC-200-2019-001.pdf
Brent Bennett, Karl Schmidt Jr., Gary Faust “The Siren Song that Never Ends: Federal Energy Subsidies and Support from 2010 to 2019” lifepowered.org, July 2020 https://lifepowered.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020-04-RR-Bennett-LP-Federal-Energy-Subsidies-2.pdf
U.S. Energy Information Administration, “Capital Cost and Performance Characteristic Estimates for Utility Scale Electric Power Generating Technologies” eia.gov, February 2020 https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/powerplants/capitalcost/pdf/capital_cost_AEO2020.pdf
Sören Amelang, “Industry power prices in Germany: Extremely high – and low”, December 2019 https://www.cleanenergywire.org/industrial-power-prices-and-energiewende
Robert Bryce, “California Screamin” robertbryce.substack.com, March 2023 https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/california-screamin
Michael Greenstone and Ishan Nath, “Do Renewable Portfolio Standards Deliver?” Energy Policy Institute at University of Chicago, epic.uchicago.edu, May 2019 https://epic.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Do-Renewable-Portfolio-Standards-Deliver.pdf
Executive Office of the President of the U.S. The Council of Economic Advisors, “The Value of U.S. Energy Innovation and Policies Supporting the Shale Revolution” trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov, October 2019 https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/The-Value-of-U.S.-Energy-Innovation-and-Policies-Supporting-the-Shale-Revolution.pdf
CHAPTER 10
Hannah Ritchie, “Death rates per unit of electricity production” ourworldindata.org, 2021 https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics “Incidence rates of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses by industry and case types,” bls.gov, 2020 https://www.bls.gov/web/osh/summ1_00.htm
U.S. EPA, “Radiation Sources and Doses” epa.gov https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radiation-sources-and-doses
World Nuclear Association, Pocket Guide Radiation, world-nuclear.org, 2015/16 https://www.world-nuclear.org/uploadedFiles/org/WNA/Publications/Nuclear_Information/pocket_guide_radiation.pdf
World Nuclear Association, Pocket Guide Radiation, world-nuclear.org, 2015/16 https://www.world-nuclear.org/uploadedFiles/org/WNA/Publications/Nuclear_Information/pocket_guide_radiation.pdf
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy, “5 Facts to Know About Three Mile Island,” Energy.gov, May 2022, https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-facts-know-about-three-mile-island
United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, “Assessments of the radiation effects from the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident” unscear.org https://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/areas-of-work/chernobyl.html
United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, “UNSCEAR 2008 Report to the General Assembly with Scientific Annexes Source and Effect of Ionizing Radiation, unscear.org, April 2011 https://www.unscear.org/docs/reports/2008/11-80076_Report_2008_Annex_D.pdf
United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, “UNSCEAR 2008 Report to the General Assembly with Scientific Annexes Source and Effect of Ionizing Radiation, unscear.org, April 2011 https://www.unscear.org/docs/reports/2008/11-80076_Report_2008_Annex_D.pdf
Hannah Ritchie, “What was the death toll from Chernobyl and Fukushima?”, ourworldindata.org, July 2017 https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-chernobyl-and-fukushima
Hannah Ritchie, “Death rates per unit of electricity production” ourworldindata.org, February 2020 https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
Matthew J. Neidell, Shinsuke Uchida, Marcella Veronesi, “NBER Working Paper Series The Unintended Effects From Halting Nuclear Power Production: Evidence From Fukushima Daiichi Accident” nber.org, December 2022, https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26395/w26395.pdf
CHAPTER 11
U.S. Department of Energy, “Quadrennial Technology Review An Assessment Of Energy Technologies And Research Opportunities, Chapter 10: Concepts in Integrated Analysis”, Page 390, energy.gov, September 2015 https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/03/f34/qtr-2015-chapter10.pdf
United Nations Economic Commission For Europe, “Life Cycle Assessment of Electricity Generation Options,” 4.4 Human toxicity, page 52, unece.org, 2021 https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2021-10/LCA-2.pdf
CHAPTER 12
U.S. Department of Energy, “Quadrennial Technology Review An Assessment Of Energy Technologies And Research Opportunities, Chapter 10: Concepts in Integrated Analysis”, Page 390, energy.gov, September 2015 https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/03/f34/qtr-2015-chapter10.pdf
Vaclav Smil, “What I See When I See A Wind Turbine” Spectrum.IEEE.org, March 2015, http://vaclavsmil.com/wp-content/uploads/15.WINDTURBINE.pdf
U.S. Department of Energy, “Quadrennial Technology Review An Assessment Of Energy Technologies And Research Opportunities, Chapter 10: Concepts in Integrated Analysis”, page 390, energy.gov, September 2015 https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/03/f34/qtr-2015-chapter10.pdf
Thomas A. Troszak, “Why do we burn coal and trees to make solar panels?,” Hiddenhistorycenter.org, November 2019, https://hiddenhistorycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/BurningCoalTreesToMakeSolarPanels.pdf
Thomas A. Troszak, “Why do we burn coal and trees to make solar panels?” Hiddenhistorycenter.org, November 2019, https://hiddenhistorycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/BurningCoalTreesToMakeSolarPanels.pdf
Hannah Ritchie, “How does the land use of different electricity sources compare?” ourworldindata.org, June 2022 https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source
Office of Nuclear Energy, “Benefits of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)” Energy.gov https://www.energy.gov/ne/benefits-small-modular-reactors-smrs
CHAPTER 13Chris Martin, “Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills” bloomberg.com, February 2020, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turbine-blades-can-t-be-recycled-so-they-re-piling-up-in-landfills
Atalay Atasu, Serasu Duran, and Luk N. Van Wassenhove, “The Dark Side of Solar Power” hbr.org, June 2021, https://hbr.org/2021/06/the-dark-side-of-solar-power
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), “End-of-Life Management Solar Voltaic Panels” irena.org, 2016 https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication/2016/IRENA_IEAPVPS_End-of-Life_Solar_PV_Panels_2016.pdf
“Honda Civic Features And Specs, Weight Information, 2021” CarandDriver.com, https://www.caranddriver.com/honda/civic/specs
Michael Shellenberger, “Dark Side To Solar? More Reports Tie Panel Production To Toxic Pollution,” Forbes.com, June 2021, https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2021/06/21/why-everything-they-said-about-solar---including-that-its-clean-and-cheap---was-wrong/?sh=7605467c5fe5
Niccolo Conte, “The Power of a Uranium Pellet,” elements.visualcapitalist.com, August 2021, https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/the-power-of-a-uranium-pellet/
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy, “5 Fast Facts about Spent Nuclear Fuel”, energy.gov, October 2022 https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-nuclear-fuel
World Nuclear Association, “Radioactive Waste – Myths and Realities,” world-nuclear.org, January 2022, https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/nuclear-wastes/radioactive-wastes-myths-and-realities.aspx
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy, “5 Fast Facts about Spent Nuclear Fuel”, energy.gov, October 2022 https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-nuclear-fuel
Sonal Patel, “Oklo Readying to Deploy Commercial-Scale Nuclear Fuel Recycling Facility” Powermag.com, January 2023 https://www.powermag.com/oklo-readying-to-deploy-commercial-scale-nuclear-fuel-recycling-facility/
CHAPTER 14
Hannah Ritchie, Max Roser and Pablo Rosado, "Energy". Published online at OurWorldInData.org, 2022 https://ourworldindata.org/energy
Vaclav Smil, “The Modern World Can't Exist Without These Four Ingredients. They All Require Fossil Fuels” Time.com, May 2022 https://time.com/6175734/reliance-on-fossil-fuels/
CHAPTER 15
IEA, “The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transitions” IEA.org, May 2021 https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in-clean-energy-transitions
IEA, “Average lead times to build new electricity grid assets in Europe and the United States” 2010-2021, IEA.org, January 2023 https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/average-lead-times-to-build-new-electricity-grid-assets-in-europe-and-the-united-states-2010-2021
Hillary Aidun & Jacob Elkin et al., “Opposition to Renewable Energy Facilities in the United States” Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, scholarship.law.columbia.edu, March 2022 https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1186&context=sabin_climate_change
Renewable Rejection Database, Robertbryce.com, 2015-23 https://robertbryce.com/renewable-rejection-database/
IEA, “Net Zero by 2050” IEA.org, 2021 https://www.iea.org/reports/net-zero-by-2050
U.S. Department of Energy, “Quadrennial Technology Review An Assessment Of Energy Technologies And Research Opportunities, Chapter 10: Concepts in Integrated Analysis”, Page 390, energy.gov, September 2015 https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/03/f34/qtr-2015-chapter10.pdf
IEA, “The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transitions” IEA.org, 2021 https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in-clean-energy-transitions
Daniel Yergin, Mohsen Bonakdarpour, Tabitha M. Bailey et al, “The Future of Copper: Will the looming supply gap short-circuit the energy transition?” S&P Global, cdn.ihsmarkit.com, July 2022 https://cdn.ihsmarkit.com/www/prot/pdf/0722/Future-of-Copper.pdf
Department of Energy Office of Electricity, “DOE Launches New Initiative From President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law To Modernize National Grid” Energy.gov, January 2022 https://www.energy.gov/oe/articles/doe-launches-new-initiative-president-bidens-bipartisan-infrastructure-law-modernize
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