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Energy Modeling: the Good, the Bad, and the Misleading

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The Copper Plate Model of Jacobson and Others

Professor Mark Jacobson said you could decarbonize the US for cheap with windwater solar. But his model is doing something that is physically impossible, he says. He showed a graph of just an arbitrary couple of days and it went up to 11 or 12 X hydroelectric dams in the entire country today at the same time - hours at a time.

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