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The CO2 Budget – Let’s Talk Numbers
The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its Annual Review – AR5 with a graphic that may help frame the Climate Change issue. The notion of…
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Competitive Positioning – Pending New EPA Standards
There is ample information on various DOE websites defining cost and performance baselines for the various types of power plant options currently in today’s available mix. I used…
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Impact of Fuel Switching on CO2 Emissions
You may recall all the hoopla surrounding the reduction in the U.S. CO2 emissions in 2013, coincident with new-found shale gas resources. We had turned the corner on…
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The EPA’s Clean Power Plan – 2015
What does a 32% reduction in power plant CO2 emissions by 2030 that really mean? Let’s start with the data. The U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) has published…
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Wind Load Factor
I love Wind! Wind is good, anytime…anywhere! I like how they look and I like what they do. But, have you ever noticed that all the success claims…
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CO2 Waste Disposal Fee
This is where we are on the atmospheric CO2, according to the recent IPCC 5th Assessment Report. The worldwide CO2 emissions in 2013 were 36.1 Gt. The chart…
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