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The World Wants a Solution to Climate Change: Here It Is
This week in Doha, Qatar, world leaders are struggling with how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions fast enough, and in amounts great enough, to protect people from the droughts, food shortages, rising sea levels, and severe weather events that climate change is likely to bring.Leaders are debating a range of solutions including carbon...[read more]
Energy Efficiency Looks Beyond the Natural Gas Boom
The recent boom in shale gas production and the subsequent decrease in the price of natural gas have left some wondering what the role for energy efficiency will be in the future. As a new ACEEE white paper explains, energy efficiency measures are still cost-effective in any foreseeable natural gas price environment.[read more]
ACEEE 2010 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard: Beyond the Rankings.
Yesterday the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy released its 2010 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard (log-in required), a much anticipated report that ranks states based on their efforts to increase energy efficiency through policy--utility and public benefits programs, transportation policies, building energy codes,...[read more]
McKinsey must-read: U.S. can meet entire 2020 emissions target with efficiency and cogeneration while lowering the nation’s energy bill $700 billion!
More than perhaps any other company, McKinsey has documented how an aggressive energy efficiency strategy sharply lowers the cost of climate action (see “McKinsey 2008 Research in Review: Stabilizing at 450 ppm has a net cost near zero”). Today they released their most comprehensive analysis to date of this country’s energy efficiency...[read more]
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“It's interesting - there seems to be some fear deep down in that comment. The word "Impossible" at the end of it draws attention.For the record, I work at a nuclear reactor, as an engineer. I was once a fan of nuclear, until I realized how hard it is to gain public support for new nuclear. Last year, US generation of renewables (without hydro) was 28% that of nuclear. This year, that share is ...”
“Why not have the tremendous resource of the US armed forced (funded to the tune of nearly $1,000B annually apparently) used to produce floating SMRs for commercial (or even subsidised or hell even gifted for free) sale?A sub or ship outputting 2 x 100MWe connected to the local grid of a buyer nation.Say she could build 500 of these ships a year that would equate to 100GWe of supply ...”