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Those who said “no” to nuclear knew they needed to say yes to alternatives. One was wind power. While large firms struggled to build giant prototypes, startups with no R&D funding gradually, but quickly scaled up from small models that worked well. Entrepreneurial risk kept them focused on market success. Meanwhile, conventional utilities fought to keep these startup turbines off their grids.
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Morris, C., Jungjohann, A. (2016). German Wind Pioneers Fighting Power Monopolies in the 1980s. In: Energy Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31891-2_4
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