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Is nuclear power essential to addressing climate change and energy independence? - NewTalk

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:34:16 -0000

Calling climate change one of the greatest challenges ever faced by the human race, some former opponents of nuclear power have recently become its advocates, if cautious advocates. Our purpose here is not to debate climate change, but rather "Is nuclear power essential to addressing climate change and energy independence?"

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Kyoto's Great Carbon Offset Swindle

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:53:39 -0000

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According to David Victor, a leading carbon trading analyst at Stanford University, as many as two-thirds of the supposed "emission reduction" credits being produced by the CDM from projects in developing countries are not backed by real reductions in pollution. Those pollution cuts that have been generated by the CDM, have often been achieved at a stunningly high cost: billions of dollars (or pounds) could have been saved by cutting the emissions through international funds, rather than through the CDM's supposedly efficient market mechanism.

Tags: carbon cdm kyoto climate greenwash

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Carbon nanotubes outperform copper nanowires as interconnects

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:58:57 -0000

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After crunching numbers for months with the help of Rensselaer’s Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations, the most powerful university-based supercomputer in the world, the research team concluded that the carbon nanotube bundles boasted a much smaller electrical resistance than the copper nanowires. This lower resistance suggests carbon nanotube bundles would therefore be better suited for interconnect applications.

Tags: carbon copper nanotechnology nanowires substitution

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Research

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:17:13 -0000

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The price of delivered electricity will rise if generators have to pay for carbon dioxide emissions through an implicit or explicit mechanism. There are two main effects that a substantial price on CO2 emissions would have in the short run (before the generation fleet changes significantly). First, consumers would react to increased price by buying less, described by their price elasticity of demand. Second, a price on CO2 emissions would change the order in which existing generators are economically dispatched, depending on their carbon dioxide emissions and marginal fuel prices. Both the price increase and dispatch changes depend on the mix of generation technologies and fuels in the region available for dispatch, although the consumer response to higher prices is the dominant effect. We estimate that the instantaneous imposition of a price of $35 per metric ton on CO2 emissions would lead to a 10% reduction in CO2 emissions in PJM and MISO at a price elasticity of -0.1. Reductions in ERCOT would be about one-third as large. Thus, a price on CO2 emissions that has been shown in earlier work to stimulate investment in new generation technology also provides significant CO2 reductions before new technology is deployed at large scale.

Tags: carbon costs electricity USA

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Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Bank of America Puts a Price on Carbon

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:23:31 -0000

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Bank of America says it has decided to start factoring a cost of carbon-dioxide emissions into its decisions about whether to underwrite debt for new coal-fired plants. Specifically, the bank says it anticipates a federal cap that would require a utility to pay between $20 and $40 for every ton of CO2 its power plants emit. Today in Europe, which already has imposed caps, a permit to emit a ton of CO2 is trading at about $29.

Bank of America’s announcement comes a week after three other big banks – Citigroup, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley – announced their own “Carbon Principles” – voluntary standards those banks say will make them less likely to underwrite financing on conventional coal-fired power plants.

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Bulldoze old power stations, says adviser - Environment - smh.com.au

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:14:19 -0000

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COAL-FIRED power stations should not be privatised but bulldozed over the next 20 years to curb greenhouse gas emissions, one of the state's leading energy academics has told the Iemma Government.

Tags: australia carbon coal emission phase-out

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Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Cheap Carbon Credits: To Japan, From Russia With Love?

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:28:29 -0000

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Japan, famous for its hybrid cars and solar panels, may become an environmental pioneer in another sense: buying cheap carbon offsets abroad to minimize the burden on its domestic industry to clean up its act at home.

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Trees Are Not The Answer To Climate Change : Environmental Graffiti

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:01:01 -0000

What was once seen as the solution to all our CO2 problems, the ability of trees to soak up anthropogenic carbon dioxide, trees has itself been hindered by global warming.

Tags: carbon climate sinks

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IGCC's Future Hinges on Workable Carbon Framework

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:06:55 -0000

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One of the leading alternatives for producing clean power from coal -- Integrated Combined Cycle Gasification (IGCC) technology faces a precarious future due to rising capital costs and regulatory uncertainty. A process of gasifying coal that allows capture of carbon dioxide emissions, IGCC has tremendous potential for meeting future baseload generation demand but project momentum has slowed dramatically in 2007, according to a new study from Emerging Energy Research (EER). Despite delays or cancellations of several prominent IGCC projects in 2007, 48 projects with a combined capacity of over 25,000 MW remain in the global IGCC pipeline, according to EER.

Tags: carbon combined cycle costs electricity emissions

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The world of energy in 2007

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:03:43 -0000

Highlights of the energy year 2007

Tags: batteries carbon climate energy efficiency greenwash

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Decarbonising our economies means redefining progress « 3E Intelligence

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:25:42 -0000

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Time to dispair? Not according to Monbiot:

“We must confront a challenge which is as great and as pressing as the rise of the Axis powers. Had we thrown up our hands then, as many people are tempted to do today, you would be reading this paper in German. Though the war often seemed impossible to win, when the political will was mobilised strange and implausible things began to happen. The US economy was spun round on a dime in 1942 as civilian manufacturing was switched to military production(25). The state took on greater powers than it had exercised before. Impossible policies suddenly became achievable.

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Guidelines for Quantifying GHG Reductions from Grid-Connected Electricity Projects

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:47:59 -0000

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The Guidelines for Quantifying GHG Reductions from Grid-Connected Electricity Projects ( 3 MB) is a publication released by the GHG Protocol Initiative.

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ClimateBiz | Toyota and BMW Cut Emissions, Take Market Share: Report

Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:03:13 -0000

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A textbook case of misunderstanding correlation. Market share is impacted by many factors, and the influence of carbon efficiency is unclear. But the point that reduced emissions does not need to cost business is valid.
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The ability of Toyota and BMW to gain market share while cutting emissions is a clear example of innovative design paying off for the bottom line and the environment

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Carbon reduction potentials

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:08:56 -0000

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World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD): Canadian CEOs urge greenhouse gas cuts beyond Kyoto target

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:08:56 -0000

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Sustainable Energy Blog: Biofuels - not yet Carbon Neutral

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:08:56 -0000

Tags: biofuels carbon neutral transport

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Sustainable Energy Blog: Personal Carbon Credits - Utopia or the Way Forward?

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:08:56 -0000

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CO2 price falls, but electricity price rises further

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:08:55 -0000

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The CO2 Plateau Of The Human Development Index

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:08:55 -0000

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Beneficial uses of CO2

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:08:55 -0000

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