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Paper #1/100 of the 100 research papers challenge

Today’s paper is Understanding Carbon Lock-in (https://doi.org/10.1016/S0301-4215(00)00070-7) a paper on the different factors contributing to fossil fuel energy still being prevalent despite renewable energy, you know, being better in every way.

Word of caution: the author uses the Soviet Union as an example of poor technological innovation to show parallels with carbon lock-in and poses free market capitalism as a solution, which is objectively false. Free market capitalism exacerbates carbon lock-in if anything.