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Explore our energy fundamentals and myth busters

The energy transition is big, complicated, and often challenging to understand. Yet that shouldn’t be a barrier to progress. That’s why RMI has a growing library of articles about the fundamentals of the energy transition.

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Clean Energy 101s

Clear explanations of energy essentials — from heat pumps and electric vehicles to green hydrogen —  can help untangle this complexity and show how it all connects. These explainers focus on the fundamentals of energy and the climate, along with the basic technologies and critical policies that are essential to decarbonize the world’s energy systems.

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Reality Checks

Misconceptions about renewable energy, electric vehicles, batteries, the electricity grid, and the clean energy transition abound. From the merely misinformed to the outright misleading, dubious information can fuel doubts about the economic, health, and climate benefits of clean energy solutions, and worse, can slow action on climate change.

Debunking these myths is critical to accelerating the clean energy transition. That is why RMI is developing a growing catalog of “Reality Check” articles that distinguish fact from fiction and set the record straight on some of the misconceptions hindering climate action.

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