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Renewable energy: Back the renewables boom

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Low-carbon technologies are getting better and cheaper each year, but continued public-policy support is needed to sustain progress, says Jessika E. Trancik.

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  1. Jessika E. Trancik is an assistant professor in the Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA.,

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