| Titre : |
Energy policy and global warming |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Jan Beyea, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
Chapman and Hall |
| Année de publication : |
1995 |
| Importance : |
p 224-242 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
SCIENCES DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT
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| Mots-clés : |
POLITIQUE DE L’ENERGIE EFFET DE SERRE DIFFERENTES ENERGIES UTILISATION DES COMBUSTIBLES FOSSILES |
| Résumé : |
We have a moral responsibility to prevent climate disaster and we can do so without disruption by steadily cutting CO2 emissions 2% a year over the next 50 years. The United States must set an example in developing an environmentally responsible energy policy, one that always takes climate protection into consideration. For their part, environmentalists must realize that conventional use of coal can no longer be considered an acceptable substitute for nuclear power.
We have many options and must consider the environmental pluses and minuses of each. As the first part of the solution, the public must be educated about energy efficiency , including the need to change transportation and recycling infrastructures. Keeping energy consumptionconstant or slightly declining while the economy is growing is a worthy goal. To accomplish it efficiency standards must be imposed, even at the risk of interfering with the free market.
The other half of the solution is solar technologies. They can make a big difference, for they cause much fewer environmental problems than fossil fuels. Expanding research into photovoltaics could be the most important energy research step that can be taken for the future. Photovoltaics alone could power the entire economy in an environmentally reponsible manner. Other possibilities, such as hydropower, wind, ocean-thermal, geothermal, biomass and fusion have less potential. Nuclear power does protect the climate but has other problems and is in public disfavor. For it to replace coal electricity would require the siting of 500 facilities over the next 50 years, which would meet resistance. However, second-generation nuclear designs are worth researching as an insurance policy, to guard against failure of the solar option.
Over the long term, we will have to pay more for energy to cut down CO2emissions , but the cost of living in a deteriorated world for our descendants would be much greater.
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| Numéro du document : |
A/MAC |
| Niveau Bibliographique : |
2 |
| Bull1 (Theme principale) : |
METEOROLOGIE ,ATMOSPHERE,CLIMATOLOGIE |
| Bull2 (Theme secondaire) : |
ATMOSPHERE,CLIMATOLOGIE-CONSIDERATION GENERALE |
Energy policy and global warming [texte imprimé] / Jan Beyea, Auteur . - Chapman and Hall, 1995 . - p 224-242. Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
SCIENCES DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT
|
| Mots-clés : |
POLITIQUE DE L’ENERGIE EFFET DE SERRE DIFFERENTES ENERGIES UTILISATION DES COMBUSTIBLES FOSSILES |
| Résumé : |
We have a moral responsibility to prevent climate disaster and we can do so without disruption by steadily cutting CO2 emissions 2% a year over the next 50 years. The United States must set an example in developing an environmentally responsible energy policy, one that always takes climate protection into consideration. For their part, environmentalists must realize that conventional use of coal can no longer be considered an acceptable substitute for nuclear power.
We have many options and must consider the environmental pluses and minuses of each. As the first part of the solution, the public must be educated about energy efficiency , including the need to change transportation and recycling infrastructures. Keeping energy consumptionconstant or slightly declining while the economy is growing is a worthy goal. To accomplish it efficiency standards must be imposed, even at the risk of interfering with the free market.
The other half of the solution is solar technologies. They can make a big difference, for they cause much fewer environmental problems than fossil fuels. Expanding research into photovoltaics could be the most important energy research step that can be taken for the future. Photovoltaics alone could power the entire economy in an environmentally reponsible manner. Other possibilities, such as hydropower, wind, ocean-thermal, geothermal, biomass and fusion have less potential. Nuclear power does protect the climate but has other problems and is in public disfavor. For it to replace coal electricity would require the siting of 500 facilities over the next 50 years, which would meet resistance. However, second-generation nuclear designs are worth researching as an insurance policy, to guard against failure of the solar option.
Over the long term, we will have to pay more for energy to cut down CO2emissions , but the cost of living in a deteriorated world for our descendants would be much greater.
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| Numéro du document : |
A/MAC |
| Niveau Bibliographique : |
2 |
| Bull1 (Theme principale) : |
METEOROLOGIE ,ATMOSPHERE,CLIMATOLOGIE |
| Bull2 (Theme secondaire) : |
ATMOSPHERE,CLIMATOLOGIE-CONSIDERATION GENERALE |
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