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Lifecycle
greenhouse gas emissions by electricity source.
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Technology
|
Description
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50th
percentile
(g CO 2/kWhe) |
reservoir
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4
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|
12
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various generation II reactor
types
|
16
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various
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18
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22
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45
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46
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various combined cycle turbines
without scrubbing
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469
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various generator types without
scrubbing
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1001
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation
Natural gas is less than half coal and 100 times more than hydro.
carbon emissions top 10
Country
|
%
of global total
annual emissions |
Tonnes
of GHG
per capita |
23.6
|
5.13top 10 emitters
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United States
|
17.9
|
16.9
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India
|
5.5
|
1.37
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5.3
|
10.8
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Japan
|
3.8
|
8.6
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Germany
|
2.6
|
9.2
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1.8
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7.3
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Canada
|
1.8
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15.4
|
1.8
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10.6
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United Kingdom
|
1.6
|
7.5
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The US and China are clearly in the lead! US and Canada are leaders in per capita emissions.
India, number three in total emissions, is one-twelfth US per capita emissions. China is still one-third US in per capita emissions.
Sunday, August 24, 2014
scorecard
At the
opening of Peter Robinson’s photo exhibit, Alice Slater and I were
Remembering
taking The End Hunger Briefing in the 80’s and celebrating
The Hunger
Project’s success in raising global awareness as child mortality
became one
of the Millennium Development Goals. The Hunger Project
defined
ending hunger as having a national infant mortality rate below 50.
Less than
50 deaths before their first birthday per thousand live births was
equivalent
of the canary in the coal mine. The source for this statistic (and
many
others) is UNICEF’s report on the State of the World’s Children which
might be
seen as a report card on how well we are managing global good.
Back around the mid-80’s, 42,000
children (child mortality is how many die
Before
their 5th birthday) each year. The 2014 State of the World’s
Children Report (available at www.unicef.org)
cites 6.6 million child deaths from preventable causes in 2012. Dividing by 365
gives a daily rate of about 18,000. Substantial progress has been made yet having
18,000 deaths from preventable causes every day might still be called the
hidden holocaust. 56 countries have child mortality rates over 50 as of 2012.
The tpo ten are:
Sierra Leone
182 1
Angola 164 2
Chad 150 3
Somalia 147 4
Democratic
Republic of the Congo 146 5
Central
African Republic 129 6
Guinea-Bissau
129 6
Mali 128 8
Nigeria 124 9
Niger 114 10
Food is not scarce. Ability to pay
for food is scarce. For the 6 billion people on the planet, UNICEF estimates
one in five lives below the poverty line of $1.25 per day or about 1.2 billion
people. This number is about the same as the number for how many do not have
access to electricity.
Friday, August 22, 2014
LEGICUUM
Around 40 years ago under the
influence of the amazing Mary Hart and the Unitarian Church of Rockville’s inspirational
Bill Moors I participated in LEGICUUM,
Legislative Committee of Unitarian Universalists of Maryland. We worked with
State officials, including Steny Hoyer, now House of Representatives Minority
Whip, to educate the Maryland legislature. One US State Department retiree
amassed arguments that investing in more intensive parole programs was far more
cost effective than investing in prisons. His view was that the budget process
was biased in favor of capital projects at the expense of programs. It was a
lot easier to get funding for more risons than to invest in enhanced parole
rograms.
Recidivism and the demand for prison
spaces could be cut and productive lives encouraged if the State of Maryland
listened. This retiree, a member of the Cedar Lane church, said he worked on ever so many issues as a
senior US government policy analyst with
no sense that he could impact any of them He relished the opportunity to make a
difference in his home State. One of my companions at Bethany Beach this week
is a parole officer in Maryland who reports that parole programs may still be
in the back seat.
Victimless crimes such as
marijuana use and prostitution were also on LEGICUUM’s agenda. I attended a
briefing on trafficking at the UN where a young woman lawyer pointed out that
in the New York area those arranging unwilling participation were not
prosecuted while those being victimized were. Reports that Attorney General
Holder is preparing a list of those in prison under a three strikes law for
marijuana offences for Presidential pardons is an encouraging step in the right
direction. The cost to New York
taxpayers for each victimless crime incarceration is about $60,000 per year.
The principle that those who want something should never have to pay for it
sounds like socialism under the guise of “being tough on crime.”
Thursday, August 21, 2014
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