Not exact matches
Senior officials at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) say there will be no «perverse incentives» to
build new refrigerant
plants simply to get credits linked to HFC 23s.
New fossil - fuel power
plants will have to meet the standard, or they
simply can't be
built.
«That U.S. exports of LNG to China could end up being worse from a greenhouse gas perspective than if China
simply built a
new power
plant and burned its own coal supplies.»
Instead of doing this, why don't we
simply fix the broken permit process for
new nuclear
plants and give modest tax incentives to industries or individuals that implement «no regrets» initiatives to reduce CO2, such as: — replace
new coal - fired power
plants with nuclear or natural gas (where a gas supply exists)-- replace newnormal automobiles with hybrids — replace Diesel for
new heavy transport with natural gas — install energy savings initiatives (waste recycling, better
building insulation, etc..)
(1) Stop
building new coal
plants is
simply not possible without reliable low - carbon replacements at comparable cost.
By the time any
new nuclear power
plant can actually be
built and brought online in the USA, it will
simply not be able to sell its extremely expensive electricity at profit in a market transformed by wind and solar and efficiency technologies.
In case you don't know TED 2009 is going on in California: TreeHugger's own Graham Hill is in attendance, but one thing which caught my eye from the other side of the country was a slideshow on how to grow you own fresh air, using only three indoor
plants: the Areca Palm, Mother - in - Law's Tongue (an unfortunately named
plant if there every was one), and the Money Plant: After studying the effects these plants had on air quality for the past 15 years in a building in New Delhi, India it was found that there was a 42 % probability of increasing blood oxygen by 1 % simply by being in the building for one
plant if there every was one), and the Money
Plant: After studying the effects these plants had on air quality for the past 15 years in a building in New Delhi, India it was found that there was a 42 % probability of increasing blood oxygen by 1 % simply by being in the building for one
Plant: After studying the effects these
plants had on air quality for the past 15 years in a
building in
New Delhi, India it was found that there was a 42 % probability of increasing blood oxygen by 1 %
simply by being in the
building for one hour.