The Water Energy Nexus in East Tennessee was produced by Dr. Carol Harden and her team at the UT Dept. of Geography, under a grant from the Baker Center. Dr. Harden’s paper explores the demands energy production has placed on water resources in Tennessee, and especially East Tennessee. As home to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), power [...]
Baker Center Senior Fellow and ORNL Corporate Fellow, David Greene, and co-authors, Roderick Lee (George Washington University) and Janet Hopson (UT Dept. Earth and Planetary Sciences), provide this review of US oil dependence and its impact on the US Economy from 1970-2010. To read and download the complete paper, click on the following link. OilDependenceCosts2010 [...]
By David J. Bjornstad and Alexandra Brewer Executive Summary With the presidential election decided, a renewed debate on energy and environmental issues will begin. This Policy Brief can serve as a primer for assessing these issues. The Brief is divided into a short introduction and three topical sections. The first section provides a short overview of the inputs [...]