A sustainable energy scenario for the United States: Year 2050

Sustainability

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3650-3680

  Tonn, Bruce ^a   Frymier, Paul ^a   Graves, Jared ^a   Meyers, Jessa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

futures methods; National energy portfolios; obligations to future generations; Scenario analysis; Sustainable energy systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867393608     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su2123650     Document Type: Article

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