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Steffen Eikenberry

How Much Land Would it Take to Generate All US Electricity With Solar Alone?

An in-principle calculation demonstrating how little land is really needed

5 min readApr 30, 2022

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How Much Land Would it Take to Generate All US Electricity With Solar Alone?

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Whence Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas?

A primer on the origin, extraction, and emissions of everyone’s favorite fossil fuels

11 min readApr 17, 2022

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Whence Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas?

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Steffen Eikenberry

Why Solar Panels Can’t Get Much More Efficient (And That’s Okay!)

Shockley-Queisser and the limits to converting sunlight into electricity

8 min readDec 18, 2020

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Why Solar Panels Can’t Get Much More Efficient (And That’s Okay!)

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Yes, 100 Companies are “Responsible” for 71% of Global Warming Emissions: So What?

Whether 100 or 100,000, it’s consuming the fossil fuels extracted by these companies that ultimately drives climate change

7 min readNov 24, 2020

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Yes, 100 Companies are “Responsible” for 71% of Global Warming Emissions: So What?

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Just how many animals do Americans eat?

And how many would you save by going meatless one day a week?

5 min readSep 8, 2020

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Just how many animals do Americans eat?

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Brief update on publicly available COVID-19 case data at Arizona State University

The epidemiologic picture has improved, but student case rates remain quite high, and ASU’s zip code is now at the epicenter of the…

9 min readSep 4, 2020

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Brief update on publicly available COVID-19 case data at Arizona State University

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Steffen Eikenberry

Mathematical analysis of publicly disclosed COVID-19 case data at Arizona State University…

While the numbers are presented as benign, a closer look shows an unfolding disaster

9 min readAug 30, 2020

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The many faces of food waste in the time of coronavirus

Discards, biofuels, meat, and opportunities for change

23 min readJun 24, 2020

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The many faces of food waste in the time of coronavirus

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Steffen Eikenberry

Steffen Eikenberry

Academic with a background in medicine, mathematics, and engineering (MD,PhD). Interested in agriculture and how consumption drives global environmental change.

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