Sentences with phrase «co2 abatement»

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When I have only 60 seconds to explain why I do nt think man - made global warming will be catastrophic enough to warrant massively expensive CO2 abatement programs, this is my argument:

I'd favour an industry wide scheme in which the «excess» was covered by the industry — say the first $ 50 million per 1Gwe plant or multiple thereof and anything above that covered by the state out of the funds raised for CO2 abatement.

If nuke advocates can offer competing papers or other evidence in these areas, then I for one have an open mind on nuclear's efficacy for CO2 abatement and energy needs.

Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM), an engineering and consulting firm, produced a report in June 2012 that listed the CO2 abatement from Australia's wind power installations.

Pacific Hydro state that the CO2 abatement due to the power production of each of their 1.5 MW turbines is 5000 tonnes per year (13.7 tonnes per day).

IEA publications — including their regular and widely read World Energy Outlook and Energy Technologies Perspective — have long emphasized the leading role that energy efficiency can play in reducing global carbon emissions, contributing «about 40 % of the CO2 abatement needed by 2050» according to the new report.

And it was for that reason that, STT Champion, Hamish Cumming ran into a brick wall, as he set about thumping the wind industry's wild claims about CO2 abatement.

Also see The benefits of wind power, CO2 abatement from wind turbines and CO2 and wind farms elsewhere.

Moreover, the report forecasts that planned deployment of HELE technology in the countries profiled, rather than subcritical, will result in an estimated 1.1 billion tonnes of CO2 abatement annually.

The cost of aggressive CO2 abatement is far, far higher than the cost of doing nothing.

In the latest UN climate «warning,» the UN argues that the costs of CO2 abatement are not all that high because we have to offset these costs with ancillary benefits of these actions.

On that basis, the CO2 abatement cost with wind is about 2x what is claimed.

One additional large cost to CO2 abatement will be the loss of freedoms we experience, from the small (reduced choice in cars) to the problematic (limits on airplane flights) to the real hardships (limits on children).

Bovenburg, A. and L. Goulder, 2001: Neutralizing the adverse industry impacts of CO2 abatement policies: What does it cost?

I was being a bit tongue - in - cheek, trying to take CO2 abatement to its illogical extreme, but unfortunately the nuttiness of the environmental movement can outrun satire.

At the request of Changning District government, the Bank team supported a Shanghai energy conservation institution, assisted by an international firm, in conducting a comprehensive survey of buildings in Hongqiao area in the Changning District, and in developing CO2 abatement cost curves to identify the abatement potential, cost, and ease of implementation of various mitigation measures.

Here are some figures for CO2 abatement effectiveness * versus proportion of electricity generated by wind (penetration):

In 2000 the population was 281million and CO2 generation was 5,620 million tons, for a per capita CO2 generation of 20.0 tons (so per capita CO2 emission has decreased quite a bit without any specific CO2 abatement measures).

The nuclear scenario costed here, with 73 % of electricity generated by nuclear, is estimated at 1/4 to 1/3 the capital cost, 1 / 3 to1 / 2 the cost of electricity and about 1/3 the CO2 abatement cost of the renewable energy scenarios.

In addition, strong CO2 abatement programs are likely to knock a percent or two off economic growth rates and, if ethanol is still a preferred tactic, will likely substantially raise food prices as well.

Could I urge you to look Figures 5, 6 and 7 (compare the options on the basis of CO2 emisisons intensity from the entire grid, capital cost, cost of electricity, CO2 abatement cost and cost of additional transmission system: http://oznucforum.customer.netspace.net.au/TP4PLang.pdf

Unlike for CO2 abatement, there are real technologies that are proven to be economic that can abate the worst of China's pollution problems.

CO2 abatement is a wealthy persons cause.

However, this could easily be a map of the pain created by CO2 abatement efforts, with the most pain felt in red and the least in green.

But, if there are symptoms (regionalized indicators of climate change) with an unknown cause (smoking / CO2), do we have them stop smoking at huge cost for the Chantix (CO2 abatement) or do we use that money to conduct further diagnostics?

When proponents of the precautionary principle say «Well, CO2 abatement is like insurance — you buy insurance on your house, don't you,» I answer, «Not if the insurance costs more than the cost to replace the house, I don't.»

To this day, this is the only improvement they can show, improvement that occured before the treaty and through steps unrelated, in the main, to CO2 abatement.

The prospects for enacting meaningful CO2 abatement schemes have been steadily declining, since let's say about 2009, when the private emails were «stolen».

They could begin Kyoto already looking like heroes, despite the fact that the reductions from 1990 - 1997 were almost all due to economic and political happenings unrelated to CO2 abatement programs.

Using costs derived for the Federal Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism the costs for the system are estimated to be: $ 336 / MWh cost of electricity and $ 290 / tonne CO2 abatement cost.

Based upon a 2011 analysis by ICF International, the potential GHG reductions by expanding TSE infrastructure and reducing idling presents a significant opportunity for CO2 abatement in the U.S., which could amount to nearly 4.1 million tons of reductions annually.

There is the possibility of basing hundreds of trillions of dollars in CO2 abatement costs upon a logically incorrect conclusion.

However, if we make it $ 500 / MWh, the CO2 abatement cost changes from $ 75 / t CO2 to $ 93 / t CO2.

-- Estimated abatement cost with renewable energy in Australia = $ 300 / t CO2 — Estimated abatement cost with nuclear energy in Australia = $ 65 / t CO2 — Nordhaus «Low - cost backstop» technology (assumes) = $ 270 / t CO2 — CO2 Abatement cost if / when we allow low - cost nuclear = < $ 0 / t CO2

Just to keep the costs in perspective with alternatives here are the alternatives again: — Current EU carbon price = $ 10 / t CO2 — Estimated abatement cost with renewable energy in Australia = $ 300 / t CO2 [3]-- Estimated abatement cost with nuclear energy in Australia = $ 65 / t CO2 — Nordhaus «Low - cost backstop» technology (assumes) = $ 270 / t CO2 [4]-- CO2 Abatement cost if / when we allow low - cost nuclear = < $ 0 / t CO2 [5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

Goulder, L. H. and K. Mathai (2000): «Optimal CO2 abatement in the presence of induced technological change,» Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 39, 1 - 38.

Here I present a rough estimate of the CO2 abatement cost for the Ernest Agee et al. proposal» CO2 Snow Deposition in Antarctica to Curtail Anthropogenic Global Warming».

Therefore, in arguing policy, I suggest we should compare policy options on the basis of the «CO2 abatement cost» of different policies.

Goulder, L. H. and S. H. Schneider (1999): «Induced technological change and the attractiveness of CO2 abatement policies,» Resource and Energy Economics, 21, 211 - 253.

Last, I present an estimate for the cost of CO2 abatement.

If it is 50 % efficient that would double the CO2 abatement cost I've calculated ($ 239 / t CO2 — see summary at end of this document and see attached spreadsheet for calculations).

«Despite their ideological attractiveness, intermittent renewables remain the most expensive and least practical mechanism for CO2 abatement.»

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CO2 abatement effectiveness decreases as penetration increases — e.g. to around 50 % CO2 abatement effectiveness at 20 % penetration.

I suggest that America adopt aggressive CO2 abatement measures immediately and without condition.

The favoured models of CO2 abatement schemes are exactly consonant with a market based apporach to allocation of public goods, in which the public interest and the managemement of the interest humans have in the commons — here the biosphere — is undertaken by government and the market is left to determine how to deliver these goods most efficiently and effectively.

The researchers found the steps taken by airline pilots in response to the interventions produced savings estimated at $ 250 per metric ton of CO2 abatement.

«Trap, contain and convert: Precise look at underground CO2 abatement process.»

The Washington University researchers have also been invited to take part in the second phase of the U.S. Department of Energy's Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise, or CarbonSAFE, which investigates new technologies for CO2 abatement.