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    "citation": "Slameršak, Kallis & O’Neill. Energy requirements and carbon emissions for a low-carbon energy transition. Nature Communications 13, 6932 (2022).",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33976-5",
    "article_url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-33976-5",
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  "inputs": "Four illustrative global 1.5°C-compatible mitigation pathways and EROI assumptions for 27 conversion technologies across electricity, gases, liquid fuels and solids.",
  "formula": "Overall-system EROI at the final-energy stage; energy for the energy system divided into extraction-to-use requirements, as defined in the article Methods.",
  "calibration": "Published technology EROI ranges, present-day estimates and energetic experience curves; author workbooks provide annual outputs.",
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  "site_transformation": "Author-supplied annual values retained; rounded to 0.1 for display; interpolation only for fractional slider years.",
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    "authors' full model code not obtained",
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