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Christopher T. M. Clack
Researcher at Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Publications - 25
Citations - 2622
Christopher T. M. Clack is an academic researcher from Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dissipative system & Magnetohydrodynamics. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 25 publications receiving 1643 citations. Previous affiliations of Christopher T. M. Clack include Earth System Research Laboratory & University of Colorado Boulder.
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Net-zero emissions energy systems
Steven J. Davis,Nathan S. Lewis,Matthew R. Shaner,Sonia Aggarwal,Douglas J. Arent,Douglas J. Arent,Inês Azevedo,Sally M. Benson,Thomas H. Bradley,Jack Brouwer,Yet-Ming Chiang,Christopher T. M. Clack,Armond Cohen,Stephen J. Doig,Jae Edmonds,Paul S. Fennell,Paul S. Fennell,Christopher B. Field,Bryan Hannegan,Bri-Mathias Hodge,Bri-Mathias Hodge,Bri-Mathias Hodge,Martin I. Hoffert,Eric Ingersoll,Paulina Jaramillo,Klaus S. Lackner,Katharine J. Mach,Michael D. Mastrandrea,Joan M. Ogden,Per F. Peterson,Daniel L. Sanchez,Daniel Sperling,Joseph Stagner,Jessika E. Trancik,Jessika E. Trancik,Chi Jen Yang,Ken Caldeira +36 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine barriers and opportunities associated with these difficult-to-decarbonize services and processes, including possible technological solutions and research and development priorities, and examine the use of existing technologies to meet future demands for these services without net addition of CO2 to the atmosphere.
Net-zero Emissions Energy Systems
Steven J. Davis,Nathan S. Lewis,Matthew R. Shaner,Sonia Aggarwal,Douglas J. Arent,Inês Azevedo,Sally M. Benson,Thomas H. Bradley,Jack Brouwer,Yet-Ming Chiang,Christopher T. M. Clack,Armond Cohen,Stephen J. Doig,Jae Edmonds,Paul S. Fennell,Christopher B. Field,Bryan Hannegan,Bri-Mathias Hodge,Martin I. Hoffert,Eric Ingersoll,Paulina Jaramillo,Klaus S. Lackner,Katharine J. Mach,Michael D. Mastrandrea,Joan M. Ogden,Per F. Peterson,Daniel L. Sanchez,Daniel Sperling,Joseph Stagner,Jessika E. Trancik,Chi Jen Yang,Ken Caldeira +31 more
TL;DR: The special challenges associated with an energy system that does not add any CO2 to the atmosphere (a net-zero emissions energy system) are reviewed and prominent technological opportunities and barriers for eliminating and/or managing emissions related to the difficult-to-decarbonize services are discussed.
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Future cost-competitive electricity systems and their impact on US CO2 emissions
Alexander E. MacDonald,Christopher T. M. Clack,Christopher T. M. Clack,Anneliese Alexander,Anneliese Alexander,Adam D. Dunbar,James M. Wilczak,Yuanfu Xie +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors calculate the cost-optimized configuration of variable electrical power generators using weather data with high spatial (13-km) and temporal (60-min) resolution over the contiguous US.
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Evaluation of a proposal for reliable low-cost grid power with 100% wind, water, and solar
Christopher T. M. Clack,Christopher T. M. Clack,Staffan Qvist,Jay Apt,Morgan Bazilian,Adam R. Brandt,Ken Caldeira,Steven J. Davis,Victor Diakov,Mark A. Handschy,Paul Hines,Paulina Jaramillo,Daniel M. Kammen,Daniel M. Kammen,Jane C.S. Long,M. Granger Morgan,Adam Reed,Varun Sivaram,James L. Sweeney,George Tynan,David G. Victor,David G. Victor,John P. Weyant,Jay Whitacre +23 more
TL;DR: Policy makers should treat with caution any visions of a rapid, reliable, and low-cost transition to entire energy systems that relies almost exclusively on wind, solar, and hydroelectric power, and find significant shortcomings in the analysis of Jacobson et al. (2015).
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A new formulation for rotor equivalent wind speed for wind resource assessment and wind power forecasting
Aditya Choukulkar,Yelena L. Pichugina,Christopher T. M. Clack,Ronald Calhoun,Robert M. Banta,Alan Brewer,Michael Hardesty +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a new formulation for calculating the expected power from a wind turbine in the presence of wind shear, turbulence, directional shear and direction fluctuations is presented, which is a complicated superposition of these effects that alters the characteristics of the power estimate that indicates the need for the new formulation.