The Way Forward
Food, Energy, and Water
As China seeks a cleaner, softer path of development, renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, and geothermal are attractive not only because of their lower carbon emissions profiles, but because they use far less water than their fossil fuel counterparts. However, while displacing all fossil fuel power plants with solar and wind farms is necessary in curbing the flow of additional greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, it does nothing to capture the
Current OECD member countries (as of March 10, 2010) are the United States, Canada, Mexico, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. Chile
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Thailand CO2 Emissions
The world is heading for an average
Whatever It Takes
Why I won't back down on climate change.
BY JOHN KERRY | JULY 1, 2010
America's oil addiction is nothing new. Ever since President Richard Nixon first talked about "energy independence," presidents and politicians have called on Washington to help break our dependence on oil from foreign countries. But again and again, in all the decades since, Washington has failed to do what everyone agrees must be done. It is a sad exclamation point on our failure to act -- to really begi
Caldeira analysis explains “the burning of organic carbon warms the Earth about 100,000 times more from climate effects than it does through the release of chemical energy in combustion.”
A hundred thousand is a big number. It means that running a handheld electric hairdryer on US grid electricity delivers a planet-warming punch comparable to [the heat given off by] two Boeing 747s operating at full takeoff power for the same time period.
When we burn carbon and release CO2 to the atmo
The International Space Station gets electricity from Solar Energy, the Earth is just a Big Space Station, no reason not to use Solar Energy for Electricity here too.
I've read that 1% of Thais controll 50% Thailand's wealth.
IMHO, a price on carbon emmissions generated by Electrical Plants could help to re-distribute Thailand's wealth to the "small people".
Revenues collected from a price on carbon could fund tree planting in the provinces and support the "Feed-in" Tariff to fund the installation Solar PV Rooftop system for "small peoples"houses. This is called Distributed Energy or Micro Power, the idea that all buildings large & small generate so
Why Carbon Pricing Matters
By Derek Thompson
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/06/why-carbon-pricing-matters/58386/
Following the news is easy. Understanding it can be tougher. In our Flashcard series, The Atlantic explains ideas that you've read about, but that the news coverage never spells out. In this installment, we dig into the case for carbon pricing.
The News
President Obama's first Oval Office address on the Gulf oil spill was panned in the press for (among other t
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Defenders of the dirty energy status quo, particularly the lobbyists and politicians associated with the oil and coal industry, have repeatedly trotted out a group of evangelical leaders known as the Cornwall Alliance to counter the growing sentiment in the evangelical community that anthropogenic climate change is a threat to God’s creation. Cornwall declares that true Christians believe “there is no convincing scientific evidence that human contribution to greenhouse gases is causing danger
A Study by NREL etimates Solar PV rooftop power using of 60% of commercial buildings roofs and 25% home roofs at about 700 Gig-a Watts.
Bangkok has 1 Solar PV Rooftop 450kW on a Lotus store.
Oils R' Us: And the Miami Herald quotes Jorge Pinon, a former BP exec on all little things we do to keep feeding the beast:
" Every time I see a new subdivision being built west of the Turnpike, that's good news for oil. Every time I go by a Toys R Us store, and I see a full parking lot, that is good news for oil."
Rachel Maddow as Fake President Obama Addresses the Nation on BP Oil Spill=D
Markey: No Confidence in BP
May 30, 2010 10:56 AM
Congressman Ed Markey, who heads up one of the Congressional committees investigating what went wrong in the Gulf spoke with John Dickerson on the misconceptions between the initial estimates of how much oil was actually coming out.
Invisible Energy shows how efficiency could contribute will over a trillion dollars annually to economic growth.
How can such an immense number be demonstrated? As Invisible Energy shows, the National Academy of Sciences, along with other scientific and business organizations, has estimated that efficiency could produce 30 percent of the energy America would otherwise need by 2030, even if we limit efficiency options to those where the technology is already available and where the costs are low
Today the better angles of our nature prevailed.
The Senate Votes in Favor of Science, Oil Savings, and Climate Action
Frances Beinecke
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/fbeinecke/the_senate_votes_in_favor_of_s.html
Posted June 10, 2010 in Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
Today the Senate made the smart choice of voting down Senator Murkowski’s resolution to undermine the EPA’s authority to reduce global warming pollution. Now we can move to the real work at ha
This is what 750kW of Solar PV looks like. How many building like this in the BMA. Many Giga-Watts of Solar potential. Less air polution, charge points for clean electric vheciles, no worries about fossile fuel dependance and price swings. Lower electric bills in the long run and more jobs in Thailand. What is the Thai Gov waiting for? Plus feeling good about yourself that you are right thing for Thailand and all living things on this planet.
Sabai Dee, Mai Mee Bon Haa
Mitsubishi Motors (Thailand) affirmed its intention to invest and produce eco-cars in Thailand, starting in September 2011.
Mitsubishi Motors (Thailand) applied for BOI project approval for eco-cars in November 2008 . Investment is expected to be some eight billion baht and it is also hoped the project will create employment for over 1,500 workers.
Richard Heinberg of Post Carbon Institute said it best: “This is what the end of the oil age looks like. The cheap, easy petroleum is gone; from now on, we will pay steadily more and more for what we put in our gas tanks—more not just in dollars, but in lives and health, in a failed foreign policy that spawns foreign wars and military occupations, and in the lost integrity of the biological systems that sustain life on this planet. The only solution is to do proactively, and sooner, what we will