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California’s Electricity Problem — and the Potential World Energy Disasters

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Is it surprising that California is now suffering from a lack of needed economic electricity? Last winter this happened in other parts of the country, and it is projected that this winter, with cold weather, there will again be energy shortages in various parts of the nation. Why is our welfare in jeopardy?

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Wolfe, B. (2001). California’s Electricity Problem — and the Potential World Energy Disasters. In: Kursunoglu, B.N., Mintz, S.L., Perlmutter, A. (eds) Global Warming and Energy Policy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1323-0_13

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