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...what then exactly does he intend to do? For one thing, the President said, he wants to see us diversify our energy choices, greatly expanding the use of clean coal, solar, wind and nuclear power and biofuels. He also wants to see stepped-up research into improved batteries for hybrid cars...
...come around to the virtues of nuclear power, providing strict safety standards can be maintained and someone can figure out what to do with the waste. The energy industry loves nukes and clean coal, and if they have to make a little room at the table for windmills and solar panels, well, that can't hurt too much. Plus, Bush also called for doubling the size of the nation's strategic energy reserve, boosting oil demand by putting the government in line for a massive fill-up on the federal credit card...
...generate about 20 tons of CO2 per capita per year; Britons, about half that). So for anything between $4 and $40 to offset the equivalent of one ton of CO2, a consumer in, say, Germany might help schools and hospitals in Eritrea switch from fossil-fuel electricity generation to solar panels. The simplicity of the idea is appealing. Consumers and businesses worldwide voluntarily offset an equivalent of 6 million tons of CO2 in 2005, forking out $43 million in the process, seven times the amount spent the previous year. (Even British Prime Minister Tony Blair is ponying up, after coming...
...even that is easier said than done. How can ordinary consumers be sure that their contributions toward, say, building solar greenhouses in the Himalayas is money well spent? Without global or even national regulators becoming involved, standards in the offset industry have become a free-for-all. It seems obvious, for example, that a project should reduce emissions below the level that would have occurred without that project, a condition known as "additionality." But that's not always the case. Thanks to hazy interpretations of that proviso, "at least half" of current projects wouldn't meet a uniformly strict assessment...
...talks to “entrepreneurs” in magical places like India and China. And whenever he does, people are really excited to talk to him. So, naturally, he wants all of his readers to know just how damn exciting these exotic encounters are. Thus, a Chinese solar-energy mogul’s quote about how the government came to his factory transforms from “They said, ‘This is an industry’” to “They said, ‘This is an industry...