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Study: Grid For Renewables Key to Cutting Emissions
2016-01-25 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Carbon dioxide emissions from generating electricity could be cut by 78 percent within the next 15 years if the country makes the same Herculean effort to expand solar and wind technology that it did to build the Interstate Highway System. That's the conclusion of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) study published Monday in Nature Climate Change, which shows that a new system of transcontinental transmission lines connected to wind and solar farms nationwide is the key to...
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