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Scenarios for a low carbon, no-nuke future

Posted on July 14, 2008

By Gar LipowThe attached Excel spreadsheet takes specific technologies, the known cost of implementing them, and various scenarios for responses to such implementation and technical improvements (including no technical improvement!) and calculates costs and benefits. This is intended to be an open source model. The comment section will be used to revise the spreadsheet with links to the old versions added to the bottom of this post as revisions are made (for the sake of transparency.) There is also a Word document with a narration of assumptions. The conclusion in this 1.0 version: Unsu...

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