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PostJanuary 13, 2020

Our pathetically slow shift to clean energy, in five charts

Renewable energy is growing rapidly, plummeting in price, and the focus of remarkable technological improvements. In this article, James Temple, MIT Technology Review's senior editor for energy, breaks down why and how these extraordinary improvements are still just a blip in the context of the global energy system.

Read the full article at: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614917/our-pathetically-slow-shift-t…

Image by: Thomas Reaubourg on Unsplash

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