ASAP Publications:

PV / Wind:

Mason, James. 2020. PV+battery storage for peak electricity supply. White paper for the American Solar Action Plan (ASAP).

Mason, James. 2019. Global warming analysis. Position paper of the American Solar Action Plan (ASAP).

How We Can Store Solar and Wind Electricity to be Used on Demand When the Sun Is Not Shining and the Wind Is Not Blowing: Proceedings of 2nd CAES Conference (20-21 October 2010)

Fthenakis, Vasilis, James Mason, and Ken Zweibel. 2009. The technical, geographical, and economic feasibility for solar energy to supply the energy needs of the US. Energy Policy 37(2):387-399.

Zweibel, Ken, James Mason, and Vasilis Fthenakis. 2008. Here comes the sun. EnergyBiz Magazine, March/April 2008 Edition.

Scientific American Article - "Solar Grand Plan":
Zweibel, Ken, James E. Mason, and Vasilis Fthenakis. 2008. A solar grand plan. Scientific American 298(1):64-73.

Hydrogen:

Mason, James E. 2025. Green Hydrogen for Transportation. A proposal for a U.S. national system of green hydrogen generation and pipeline distribution to convert the transportation sector to fuel cell electric vehicles. Not published, but available here on this site.

Mason, J.E. and K. Zweibel. 2008. Hydrogen Production by Electrolysis of Water Using PV Electricity. Centralized production of hydrogen using a coupled water electrolyzer-solar photovoltaic system. In Solar Hydrogen Generation: Toward a Renewable Energy Future, eds. Rajeshwar K, McConnell R, and Licht S. New York: Kluwer Academic.

Mason, J.E. and Zweibel K. 2007. Baseline model of a centralized PV electrolytic hydrogen system. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 32(2007):2743-2763

Other PV and Wind Research:

Mason, James E. and Cristina L. Archer. 2011. Analysis of wind base load electricity generation in the U.S. Manuscript published by the journal Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Feb 2012.

Energy Survey Results, 2011

Mason, James, Vasilis Fthenakis, Ken Zweibel, Tom Hansen, Thomas Nikolakakis. 2008. Coupling pv and case power plants to transform intermittent pv electricity into a dispatchable electricity source. Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications 16(8):649-668.

Mason, J. E., V. M. Fthenakis, T. Hansen, and H. C. Kim. 2006. PV Life Cycle Analysis. Energy payback and life-cycle CO₂ emissions of the BOS in an optimized 3.5-MW PV installation. Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications 14(2):179-190.

Research on Shale Oil and Gas Supply:

Mason, James 2012. Well Production Profiles for the Fayetteville Shale Gas Play (revised and expanded). Oil and Gas Journal, May 7, 2012 Issue.

Mason, James 2012. North Dakota Bakken Shale Oil Production Analysis. Article for Oil and Gas Journal, April 2, 2012 Issue.