Entries tagged as ‘Energy’
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Under the proposed rule, affected facilities and suppliers would be required to begin collecting data on January 1, 2010. The first emissions report would be due on March 31, 2011, for emissions emitted during 2010.
The following industries will likely be regulated under the EPA’s proposed greenhouse gas monitoring and reporting regulations:
General Stationary Fuel Combustion
Sources
Electricity Generation
Adipic Acid Production
Aluminum Production
Ammonia Manufacturing
Cement Production
Electronics Manufacturing
Ethanol Production
Ferroalloy Production
Fluorinated GHG Production
Food Processing
Glass Production
HCFC-22 Production and HFC-23 Destruction
Hydrogen Production
Iron and Steel Production
Lead Production
Lime Manufacturing
Magnesium Production
Nitric Acid Production
Oil and Natural Gas Systems
Petrochemical Production
Petroleum Refineries
Phosphoric Acid Production
Pulp and Paper Manufacturing
Silicon Carbide Production
Soda Ash Manufacturing
Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) from Electrical Equipment
Titanium Dioxide Production
Underground Coal Mines
Zinc Production
Landfills
Wastewater Treatment
Manure Management
Suppliers of Coal
Suppliers of Coal-based Liquid Fuels Suppliers of Petroleum Products
Suppliers of Natural Gas and Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs)
Suppliers of Industrial GHGs
Suppliers of Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Manufacturers of Mobile Sources
Categories: environment
Tagged: Energy, environment, EPA, ghg, global warming
Proposed Powerline Route
The Sunrise Powerlink: A proposed power line from the California coast to the solar, wind, and geothermal rich Imperial Valley.
The Route: Would likely be extended to avoid a state park, an Indian reservation and most of a forest, in addition to avoiding harm to any endangered species.
The Opposition: The Sierra Club, Centre for Biological Diversity, other similarly situated environmental groups are “holding out for a guarantee that the line will be used to transmit electricity solely from renewable sources.”
This is environmental idealism at its worst. Pursuit of the perfect preventing the good. We need new transmission lines. Holding out for exclusive access is ridiculous. Particularly in light of the existing renewable energy regulations. Progress cannot be achieved in one go. It requires gradual change. The shift to renewable sources is not going to happen over night. It will take time. Litigating for perfection in a case like this does nothing but harm environmental progress.
To an extent this is a dispute between pragmatism and idealism. Politicians like Mr Schwarzenegger tend to believe that energy projects should be judged on whether they improve on current practice. Activists, by contrast, prefer to measure them against an environmental ideal. “A little bit better than the status quo isn’t good enough,” explains Bill Magavern, the Sierra Club’s California director. He wants power to be generated close to those who will use it, and envisages a rash of solar roofs in San Diego.
Solar powered roofs in San Diego? Pipe dream.
Source: The Economist
Categories: environment
Tagged: big green, Energy, environment
Costs of Clean Energy
Grist has a post from Tom Casten, chairman of Recycled Energy Development LLC. The post has some interesting analysis of the costs of various new energy options. Be sure to read the comments, and note that the source of the chart is Recycled Energy.
Source: Internal analysis of Recycled Energy Development LLC. via Grist.org
Categories: environment
Tagged: Energy, environment
Moving to a stable World Population
Lester Brown writes about population growth over at Gristmill. Here is the bottomline:
When countries move quickly to smaller families, growth in the number of young dependents — those who need nurturing and educating — declines relative to the number of working adults. In this situation, productivity surges, savings and investment climb, and economic growth accelerates. This effect lasts for only a few decades, but it is usually enough to launch a country into the modern era. Indeed, except for a few oil-rich countries, no developing country has successfully modernized without slowing population growth.
While that is interesting, I thought even more so was the impact of telenovelas in Mexico.
While the attention of researchers has focused on the role of formal education in reducing fertility, soap operas on radio and television can even more quickly change people’s attitudes about reproductive health, gender equity, family size, and environmental protection. A well-written soap opera can have a profound short-term effect on population growth. It costs relatively little and can proceed even while formal educational systems are being expanded.
Go read the article to read about Iran’s experiments with population.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt: “Renewable is Cheaper than Nuclear”
Video at FORA.tv
President Bush quotes on the Environment
from Joseph Romm. My favorites:
“The new steps I’ve announced today are the capstone of an eight-year commitment to strong environmental protection and conservation.” January 6, 2009
“Congress also must understand they’ve got to pass an energy bill. You see, an energy bill will be good for jobs. An energy bill will be good for national security. We need an energy bill that encourages consumption …” Trenton, NJ Sept 23, 2002
The Bush Record
NRDC has a great interactive graphic on Bush’s environmental legacy here.
Categories: environment
Tagged: bush, Energy, environment, nuclear, population
I haven’t been posting, but have been collecting interesting items I wanted to post. I cleaned out the backlog today and posted the most interesting of the lot below:
Energy
Recycling
Fish and Food
Grab Bag
Categories: environment
Tagged: Energy, environment, fish, food, health, recycling
NY Times Editorial, today:
America’s energy problems are complex, and solving them will require leaders with restless curiosity and an open mind.
The Washington Independent: McCain No Friend of Solar Power
Michael Neary, president of the Arizona Solar Energy Industries Association, a non-profit trade association, said McCain frequently says he supports renewable energy development, but his deeds do not match his words.
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In 2004, McCain introduced an amendment that would have eliminated the alternative energy tax credits. In March 2006, he voted against extension of the incentives. In 2007, the senator missed three votes to extend the tax credits set to expire this year.
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Rather than supporting renewable energy, McCain has made expansion of nuclear energy the centerpiece of his energy policy. During the Sept. 26 debate, he said construction of 45 nuclear power plants would create 700,000 jobs and help the U.S. reduce reliance on foreign energy.
Shining a Light on Solar Options
If you’ve ever been interested in going solar this article offers one of the clearest explanations I have seen.
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A Bush administration plan to let U.S. agencies decide for themselves whether their actions put wildlife at risk is drawing fire from environmental groups, which say this is like letting a fox guard a henhouse.
More here.
Categories: environment
Tagged: Energy, environment, solar
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I liked number 10
10. By 2015, the Alberta Oil Sands are expected to emit more greenhouse gases than the nation of Denmark (pop. 5.4 million).
Categories: environment
Tagged: Energy, environment, ghg, oil
The Economist has 2 worthwhile articles on energy:
The Future of Energy
The Power and the glory
Climate Progress takes issue with their views on nuclear, coal, and energy efficiency.But everyone apparently agrees:
We are at the beginning of a Third Industrial Revolution in which renewable energy technologies — driven by factors such as peak oil, climate change and the old-fashioned profit motive — will permanently transform the global economy and its impact on the environment.
“A fundamental change is coming sooner than you might think,” the newspaper says.
“Everyone loves a booming market, and most booms happen on the back of technological change,” the Economist writes. “The world’s venture capitalists, having fed on the computing boom of the 1980s, the internet boom of the 1990s and the biotech and nanotech boomlets of the early 2000s, are now looking around for the next one. They think they have found it: energy.”
Categories: environment
Tagged: Climate, Energy, environment
