Is renewable electricity sustainable ? Evolution of EROIs until 2050

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Table of contents

I Is renewable electricity sustainable ? Evolution of EROIs until 2050
1 Introduction
2 The EROI of a Technology Is Not Intrinsic
3 Estimation of Current and Future EROIs Using THEMIS
4 Implications of a Decreasing EROI on Prices and GDP
5 Concluding Remarks
Appendix
A Updating a Matrix A To a New Given Mix
B Example of Non-Decreasing Relation Between EROI and Price
C Complementary Results
1. Ecological Economics, 2019.
D Proof of Proposition 4.1
II How recyclability affects the optimal timing of the transition 2 
1 Introduction
2 The model
3 Optimal energy production with infinite horizon
4 Extensions in a two-period model
5 Conclusion
Appendix
A Solutions of the infinite horizon
B Optimality of the solutions
C Other Appendices
D Karush-Kuhn-Tucker in infinite horizon 3
IIIYellow Vests, pessimistic beliefs, and carbon tax aversion 4 
1 Introduction
2 Context, survey, and data
3 Pessimistic beliefs
4 How attitudes shape beliefs
5 How beliefs determine attitudes
6 Conclusion
Appendix
A Raw data
B Notations
C The use of official household survey data
D Persistence of beliefs in self-interest
E Additional specifications
F Control variables
G Questionnaire
H Support rates for Tax & Dividend policies
I Relation between support and belief in progressivity
J Willingness to pay
K Ensuring data quality
IV French attitudes on climate change, carbon taxation and other climate policies 
1 Introduction
2 The survey
3 Perceptions and Attitudes over Climate Change
4 Attitudes over Carbon Tax and Dividend
5 Attitudes over Other Policies
6 Determinants of Attitudes
7 Conclusion
Appendix
A Sources on GHG emissions
B Details on main regressions
C Questionnaire
D Additional results on attitudes over climate change
E Test different wording for winners and losers
F Who are the Yellow Vests
G Additional specifications for determinants of attitudes
H Construction of the knowledge index
I Logit regressions for determinants
J Robustness for the absence of cultural cognition effect
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