Богатство наций. Электричество и потребности мира. Роберт Брайс
in Our Backyard: Rural America Is Fighting Back Against LargeScale Renewable Energy Projects (Golden Valley, MN: Center of the American Experiment, April 2021), https://files.americanexperiment.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Not-in-Our-Backyard-Robert-Bryce.pdf.
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Robert Bryce, “Voters Veto Big Wind in Ohio and Michigan, Rejections Now Total 375 Since 2015,” RealClear Energy, November 11, 2022, www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/11/11/voters_veto_big_wind_in_ohio_and_michigan_rejections_now_total_375_since_2015_864316.html.
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Там же.
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Bill Chapell, “An Unusually High Number Of Whales Are Washing Up On U. S. Beaches,” NPR, February 5, 2023, https://www.npr.org/ 2023/02/05/1153922137/dead-whale-strandings.
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Robert Bryce, “New NOAA Map Shows North Atlantic Right Whales In Very Same Areas Targeted For Offshore Wind Development,” Substack, January 4, 2023, https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/new-noaa-map-shows-north-atlantic?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2.
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Catherine Clifford, “Bill Gates’ Company TerraPower Raises $750 Million for Nuclear Energy and Medicine Innovation,” CNBC, August 15, 2022, www.cnbc.com/2022/08/15/bill-gates-nuclear-company-terrapower-raises‐750‐million.html.
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“Application Submitted for US Molten Salt Research Reactor,” World Nuclear News, August 19, 2022, www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Application-submitted-for-US-molten-salt-research.
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Amit Malewar, “TAE Secures Funds to Build Its Billion-Degree Hydrogen-Boron Fusion Reactor,” Inceptive Mind, August 13, 2022, www.inceptivemind.com/tae-secures-funds-build-billion-degree-hydrogen-boron-fusion-reactor/25845/.
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems, “Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $1.8 Billion in Funding to Commercialize Fusion Energy,” news release, December 1, 2021, https://cfs.energy/news-and-media/commonwealth-fusion-systems-closes‐1–8‐billion-series-b-round.
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N2N – Natural gas to Nuclear. – Прим. перев.
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Более подробное объяснение N2N см. в 3‐й части кн. Robert Bryce, Power Hungry (New York: PublicAffairs, 2010).
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Цит. по: Ben Geman, “Nonprofit Aims to Help Africa Build Energy for Economic Development,” Axios, February 26, 2019, www.axios.com/startup-africa-energy-manufacturing-economy-power‐35e46508-3bd3-4f0c-a48c‐64e534599933.html.
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Баррио – район, наименьшая административно-территориальная единица в Пуэрто-Рико. – Прим. перев.
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Trevor Houser and Peter Marsters, “The World’s Second Largest Blackout,” Rhodium Group, April 12, 2018, https://rhg.com/research/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-worlds-second-largest-blackout/.
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Wikipedia, s. v. “Solar Storm of 1849,” last modified April 9, 2019, 06:38, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859.
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Deborah Byrd, “$40 Billion a Day for Solar Super-Storms,” EarthSky, January 20, 2017, http://earthsky.org/earth/40‐billion-a-day-for-solar-super-storms.
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Rebecca Smith, “Russian Hackers Reach U. S. Utility Control Rooms, Homeland Security Officials Say,” Wall Street Journal, July 23, 2018, www.wsj.com/articles/russian-hackers-reach-u-s-utility-control-rooms-homeland-security-officials-say‐1532388110
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“Recognizing the Duty of the Federal Government to Create a Green New Deal,” H. R. Res 109, 116th Cong. (2019), www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/109/text.
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На конец 2018 года компания Amazon владела или контролировала примерно 4700 мегаватт генерирующей мощности. Для сравнения: у Хорватии было 4900 мегаватт, у Лаоса – 4500 мегаватт. См.: “Country Comparison: Electricity – Installed Generating Capacity,” CIA World Factbook, www.cia.gov/LIBRARY/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2236rank.html.
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Energy Information Administration, “Revenue from Sales of Electricity to Ultimate Customers.”
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В 2018 году эти три компании сообщили о своих доходах: Ford: 160,3 миллиарда долларов, General Electric: 121,6 миллиарда, General Motors: 147 миллиардов. Итого: 428,9 миллиарда долларов.
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“Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data,” Environmental Protection Agency, www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data.
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В системе нумерации курсов американских университетов 101 часто используется для обозначения вводного курса на начальном уровне обучения. То же, что «пропедевтический курс» в наших университетах. – Прим. перев.
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Vaclav Smil, “Moore’s Curse and the Great Energy Delusion,” The American, November 19, 2008, www.aei.org/publication/moores-curse-and-the-great-energy-delusion/.
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Erin Wayman, “The Earliest Evidence of Hominid Fire,” Smithsonian.com, April 4, 2012, www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-earliest-example-of-hominid-fire‐171693652/.
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«Электрический ток», объяснение единиц СИ, www.si-units-explained.info/ElectricCurrent/#.WESLOHeZPNw.
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Independence Hall Association, “Electricity,” The Electric Ben Franklin, UShistory.org, www.ushistory.org/franklin/science/electricity.htm. “Benjamin Franklin,” APS Physics, www.aps.org/programs/outreach/history/historicsites/franklin.cfm.
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William Beaty, “How Are Watts, Ohms, Amps, and Volts Related?” April 2, 2000, http://amasci.com/elect/vwatt1.html.