The chapter "A Renewable Energy Future?" was written by Prof. Michael Jefferson in the Handbook On Energy And Climate Change and edited by Roger Fouquet, Principal Research Fellow, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics, UK.
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