The brave new world of less-polluting electricity generation is creating some hiccups, experts at the institute said.
Other countries can close highly polluting coal-fire electricity plants as an easy first step toward reducing emissions.
He also chucked into the mix his "clean energy standard", a scheme to promote less polluting forms of electricity generation, even though it has nothing to do with oil imports (energy generation relies on coal, gas, nuclear or renewables, but not on oil, which is used almost exclusively for transport, heating and industry).None of this is new.
The energy company, American National Power of Houston, which goes by the name Brookhaven Energy locally, wants to spend more than $300 million to build a 580-megawatt natural gas-fueled power station near Yaphank to supply what it says would be minimally polluting, low-cost electricity to the region.
To be clear, Ed Mazria and Architecture 2030 are not providing the Silver Bullet to get us (the US and the globe) to a Prosperous and Climate-Friendly Society, but this is a pretty impressive Silver BB... and a Silver BB that will help strike down our economic morass at the same time it helps accelerate the retirement of polluting coal-fired electricity.
"Experience suggests the government will choose badly, be lobbied extensively and will not have enough information," says Guy Newey of Policy Exchange, a think-tank.A more rational way to encourage investment in low-polluting electricity generation would be to levy a tax on polluters.
Water-Current Turbines (WCTs) are non-polluting electricity generation plants that harness the kinetic energy of natural water courses, using several kinds of rotors.
The Ontario government saw the GEA after the trip as an economic booster, job creator, and non-air-polluting electricity producer.
Access to non-polluting electricity in the developing world is mission-critical for enabling health and preventing disease, as well as in facilitating commerce.
The existing regime of electricity producers finds itself confronted with various landscape pressures related to the production of electricity from polluting sources.
Hydropower has often been billed as a clean source of renewable energy, and generating electricity without polluting the air or producing greenhouse gases is commendable.
