This tiny model town shows how we could achieve 100% clean energy

We built this tiny model town to show what it would look like if we tried to transition to 100% clean energy. In the real world, it can be even more difficult. Staff reporter Shannon Osaka wrote about what it really means when cities say they're going '100 percent renewable.' You can find that link here: https://grist.org/energy/can-a-city-t...

Show notes:
Thanks for watching! This is a super complex topic and so there's a lot that I didn't get to cover. Below you'll find my sources as well as resources for more information.

Interviews:
Dr. Jesse D. Jenkins, Assistant Professor, Princeton University
Dr. Leah Stokes, Professor, University of California Santa Barbara

Sources:
Sepulveda, Jenkins, de Sisternes, Lester | The role of firm low-carbon electricity resources in deep decarbonization of power generation
https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S...

Leah Stokes, Democracy Journal | Cleaning up the electricity system
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine...

Griffith, Calisch, Fraser | Rewiring America
https://www.rewiringamerica.org/handbook

Foreign Affairs | Paths to net zero
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articl...

More info:
Dr. Leah Stokes’ video for Grist on how quickly we need to ramp up renewables
   • How quickly do we need to ramp up ren...  

She also wrote a book on clean energy and politics, “Rewiring America”
https://www.leahstokes.com/book

Vox explainer video on the variability of solar
   • The 'duck curve' is solar energy's gr...  

How to decarbonize America – and the world
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/15/how...

What’s the future of nuclear energy?
https://grist.org/article/next-gen-nu...

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