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[SQUEAKING] [RUSTLING] [CLICKING] DAVID HSU: My name is David Hsu. I'm a professor of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. And this is another installment of my lecture series on urban energy systems and policies. Today, we're going to talk about renewable energy. And we've been talking in this class about consumption, how we consume energy in our personal transportation and our buildings and our consumption of material goods, quite often produced by industrial manufacturing processes. And I've emphasized in the class that we need to make all those uses more efficient in order for us to help decarbonize cities. But now it's time for us to turn to talking about renewable energy, the fundamental building blocks that'll enable cities to transition from their current energy sources, which mostly depend on fossil fuels, to renewable energy sources that will help cities decarbonize and avoid the worst consequences of climate change. So today, in the first part I'll talk about wind energy. The