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Johan Swahn

Dean Abrahamson is a professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota and a visiting professor at the Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University in Göteborg, Sweden. Johan Swahn is an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Resource Theory at Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University. The authors wish to acknowledge the support of the Swedish National Energy Administration.