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...counterpart to reducing pollution is increasing conservation, and on this issue Obama’s plan to increase energy efficiency is spot on. There are simply not enough oil or coal reserves in the world to sustain our current lifestyle, especially if the vast economies of China and India aspire to join us in our profligacy. But the President should go even further than even Obama has proposed, and mandate efficient city planning that minimizes transportation costs, specifically for automobiles...
Based on her project’s research, Takasaki found that most mercury emissions come from coal-fired electrical power, and because CFL bulbs use less electricity than incandescent light bulbs, they actually reduce the net amount of mercury released into the environment...
...election is our next President’s energy policy. George W. Bush’s presidency has been marked by a stubborn unwillingness to recognize the importance of human action in mitigating climate change. Our energy and transportation sectors, which are overwhelmingly dependent on nonrenewable fossil fuels like coal and petroleum, are long due for a comprehensive overhaul...
...really understand how carbon accumulates in the atmosphere. Increasing global temperatures are driven by the increase in the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere. Before the industrial age, the concentration was about 280 parts per million (p.p.m.) of carbon in the atmosphere. After a few centuries of burning coal, oil and other fossil fuels, we've raised that concentration to 387 p.p.m., and it continues to rise by about 2 p.p.m. every year. Many scientists believe that we need to at least stabilize carbon concentrations at 450 p.p.m. to ensure that global temperatures don't increase more than about...
...Just outside the town is a state-of-the-art coal-fired power plant built by the German utility Steag, which alone provides about 5% of Turkey's electricity. When it started operations in 2003, the $1.5 billion plant was the biggest single foreign investment in the country. In nearby Isdemir, a giant steel mill built in the 1970s by Russian engineers using Soviet technology is undergoing massive renovation. Some 18,000 workers used to produce just over 2 million tons of steel here; now about 6,000 people produce almost three times as much - and the plant consumes less...