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Category Archives: Climate Change
Just How Clean Is Natural Gas?
I am always intrigued when new life cycle greenhouse gas footprints are published, because the results are often surprising. It is challenging to accurately estimate the life cycle footprint of a product with intuition alone. Examples: bottled water is up … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy
Tagged coal, footprint, greenhouse gas, methane, natural gas
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Nuclear Power and the “Dread to Risk” Ratio
I’m writing this post in light of the recent disaster and its aftermath in Japan. Plus, the issue combines several subjects of my personal interest: energy technology, science, and psychology. Before going on, let me state that this post isn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Science
Tagged electricity, nuclear, psychology, risk
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Gimme that green, French wine
It ain’t easy being green. Apparently we will now need to calculate “green lines” for every buying decision. I wonder where the green line is for microbrew vs. homebrew…? My front porch? Last year, a study of the carbon cost … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Food
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What do CCS and blood have in common?
Whenever I start to feel like the challenge of preventing climate change might just be insurmountable — this happens often as I read reports at work on the scale of carbon reduction needed — it’s a welcome news to hear … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy
Tagged carbon capture and sequestration, Carbozyme, CCS, clean coal
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The Importance of Scope
As an energy analyst, I often see in my own work the drastic effect of scope on analysis results. For example, take a simple-sounding question like, “How much energy is required to produce a ton of iron?” This is a … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Science
Tagged analysis, climate change, energy, scope
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Cap and Trade for Less
Good news for the future of cap and trade — and our climate — from a couple researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) probably won’t cost as much as previously thought, which will keep … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy
Tagged carbon capture and sequestration, carbon credits
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