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RENEWABLEENERGY\n\n# COLUMBIA UNIVERSITYEARTH INSTITUTE SUSTAINABILITY PRIMERS\n\nThe Earth Institute(EI)at Columbia University is dedicated to innovativeresearch and education to support the emerging field of sustainability.The Columbia University Earth Institute Sustainability Primers series,published in collaboration with Columbia University Press,offers short,solutions-oriented texts for teachers and professionals that open up enlight-ened conversations and inform important policy debates about how to usenatural science,social science,resource management,and economics to solvesome of our planet's most pressing concerns,from climate change to foodsecurity.The EI primers are brief and provocative,intended to inform andinspire a new,more sustainable generation.  \n# RENEWABLEENERGY\n\nA PRIMER FOR THETWENTY-FIRST CENTURY  \nBRUCE USHER  \n—  \nColumbia University PressPublishers Since r893  \nNew York Chichester,West Sussexcup.columbia.eduCopyright ◎2019 Bruce UsherAll rights reserved  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataNames:Usher,Bruce,author.  \nTitle:Renewable energy:a primer for the twenty-first century/Bruce Usher.  \nDescription:New York:Columbia University Press,[2019]|Series:Columbia University earth institute sustainability primers|Includes bibliographical references and index.  \nIdentifiers:LCCN 2018024274|ISBN978023II87848(cloth)|ISBN9780231187855(pbk.)|ISBN978023547529(e-book)Subjects:LCSH:Renewable energy sources.  \nClassification:LCCTJ8o8.U842019 |DDC333.79/4—dc23  \nLC record available at https:/lcn.loc.gov/2018024274  \nCover design:Julia Kushnirsky  \nCover image:◎Benjamin Van Der Spek/EyeEm/Getty Images  \nCONTENTS  \nPreface:Setting the Record Straight vii  \n1 Renewable Energy in the Twenty-First Century I  \n2 Energy Transitions:Fire to Electricity 7  \n3 The Rise of Renewables 2I  \n4 Renewable Wind Energy 29  \n5 Renewable Solar Energy 43  \n6 Financing Renewable Energy 55  \n7 Energy Transitions:Oats to Oil 75  \n8 The 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