London Low Emission Zone - Feasiblility Study

It may not be sexy but by voluntarily reducing engine idling Verizon employees cut fuel consumption by more than 1 million gallons (equivalent to taking some 1,600 cars off the road for a year).

Overall, Verizons conservation efforts in 2008 alone reduced greenhouse gas emissions by more than 303,000 metric tons, the equivalent of taking more than 55,500 cars off the road.

Verizons carbon intensity is approximately nine times below the U.S. average, as reported by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Verizons rate of 64 metric tons of CO2 emissions per million dollars in revenue represents a year-over-year improvement of 3 percent. The company remains committed to finding practical and innovative ways to increase energy efficiency and bolster conservation efforts.

In 2008, Verizon launched a pilot project that reduced the energy used by computers and monitors by installing software to remotely shut off computers not in use. Once this initiative is extended throughout the company, the projected energy savings are expected to be equivalent to the annual energy needs of 88,000 homes.

Verizon also operates the largest fuel cell site of its kind in the nation. The companys Energy Star Award-winning facility in Garden City, N.Y., uses seven fuel cells capable of generating enough electrical power per hour to meet the energy needs of 400 single-family homes.

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Algae presents a valuable way for carbon control by converting carbon dioxide emissions into feed and fuel. No fertile land and fresh water are required.

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The United States and China are the top 2 emitters of greenhouse gas emissions due to industry, but Indonesia and Brazil are #3 and #4 due to the rampant destruction of forests in these countries. Conservation International works to stop deforestation and climate change, while protecting endangered species as well as the livelihoods of local communities.

Join Conservation International by essing your personal choices at home and helping us to make changes where it will do the most good. Learn more at http://www.Conservation.org/CarbonCalculator

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Greg Barber MLC upper house Greens MP explains why the Greens votes against the governments proposed emissions trading scheme. For more information please visit greens.org.au or find us on twitter at twitter.com/monashgreens

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CORRECTION: Bill Clinton did sign the Kyoto Protocol, but neither Clinton or Bush sent it to the Senate to get ratified.

Energy Information Administration’s 2008 report on CO2 emissions falling in the U.S.: http://davidkretzmann.com/forums/index.php?topic=265.0

http://www.DavidKretzmann.com

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HHO Purple Bug -actual footage (unedited/ uncut)of Emission Testing - registering Very Low Emissions! Using the Super 7 Cell.

I was too excited.. I kept mentioning Carbon Dioxide… (Sorry- correction: it’s Carbon Monoxide).

To see the Emission Certificate click this link:

http://s186.photobucket.com/albums/x93/ehnriko/?action=view&current=Pic0007.jpg

Here’s the proof you want to see.

My AF mixture is actually 10:1 at the time of testing… normally, rich mixtures would register higher harmful emissions.

Again, the theory that HHO creates a more stronger combustion and burns more hydrocarbons is more and more becoming real.

Next Stop… DYNANOMETER. (Any Sponsors?)

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With one new coal-fired power plant coming online in China each week - over the next seven years, CO2 emissions that cause climate change are set to soar and surpass the number one polluter; America - more at www.3Ceco.com

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EnviroMission, Ltd. (www.enviromission.com.au; US Stock Market symbol: EVOMY, Australian Stock Exchange symbol: EVM) is a renewable energy developer of sustainable “green” energy solutions for the energy market. EnviroMission aims to be one of Australia’s leading producers of clean renewable energy. EnviroMission holds the proprietary rights to Solar Tower technology, a large-scale renewable energy technology based on simple fundamentals of physics — hot air rises. Solar Tower technology has the potential to offer competitive renewable energy with equal reliability to fossil fuel generators.

A single 200MW Solar Tower power station will provide enough electricity to power around 400,000 households. The energy output will represent an annual saving of more than 1,960,000 tonnes of greenhouse CO2 gases from entering the environment when compared to brown coal emissions in Victoria. The greenhouse savings equate to the removal of approximately 500,000 cars from the road. The Australian Solar Tower project consists of six distinct phases, the first two of which (project optimization and pre-feasibility commercialization) have already been completed. The third phase (final feasibility), paving the way for the implementation of the next three phases (final design, construction, and commercial operation).

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I’ve been receiving some really good questions on facebook, so I thought I would post my responses here for the benefit of the general viewing audience:

In response to how I would achieve the goal of making Canada a ‘global environmental leader’:

The main aim of becoming a ‘global environmental leader’ is to implement policies with teeth that truly address the issues of climate change, water scarcity and environmental degradation in order to show other countries that it is possible to address the environment AND build a robust economy, and thus set a precedent for other countries to look to when implementing their own environmental legislation.
The policies I would focus on would centre around taking concrete steps on climate change, water issues, and resource development (ie: the oil sands) NOW.
a) we must lower our OVERALL carbon dioxide, other greenhouse gas and toxin emissions now
b) we have to develop, and invest in, long-term strategies to implement alternative energy sources (thus moving away from finite resources like oil and coal) and technologies that produce less or no CO2
c) in order to truly address environmental issues we must reduce our overall energy and resource consumption in light of the impacts it has today and will have in years to come if we don’t address these issues. This final point is one that our federal government has avoided because it is not likely to win them any popularity contests ,but is vital if we are to have any hope in stemming the looming environmental crises experts ure us we will face (and are already facing in some parts of the country.)

In order to lower carbon dioxide emissions we need to use existing technologies to reduce our current emissions, and couple this with policies that reduce our overall consumption of energy and consequent production of carbon dioxide now and in the years to come. Many of the other contestants propose carbon sequestration and green energy as the answer to our climate change woes. I caution that these are only stop-gap measures.

The problem with focusing most of our attention on carbon sequestration or green energy is that it allows us to continue consuming very high rates of energy and resources in a ‘business as usual’ manner and does not facilitate reductions in overall consumption of energy and resources at the industrial or citizenship level.

Norway—a country that resembles Canada in that its oil and gas industry is one of its largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions– introduced a carbon tax in the early 1990s, which has allowed them to reduce their overall and per capita emissions of carbon dioxide.

Meanwhile, as Jeffrey Simpson, Mark Jaccard and Nic Rivers point out in their new book “Hot Air”, we have implemented weak policies that have allowed our overall emissions to climb higher and higher. Thus, we need to remove our laughable intensity-based emission targets and implement policies that will actually reduce our carbon emissions.

Our options include implementing a carbon tax, as Norway did, or implementing a carbon trading system. In the US, trading systems are employed for SO2 and NOx emissions,which allowed for reductions in the emissions of these pollutants AND continued growth of industry. I suggest we implement a ‘cap and trade’ system–as this has created greater reductions in emissions in the US than ‘command and control’ measures–for carbon emissions in Canada.

And the last point is that we need to look at other policies that are left out of the debate when the dialogue focuses solely on climate change:

a) I propose tightening up our Environmental Impact essment legislation so that it can better address the *cumulative* environmental and socioeconomic impacts of largescale resource extraction projects (such as oil and gas development, mining, forestry).
b)We must also address water issues, as the quality and quantity of water flowing in our rivers and lakes is declining and the provinces must work together with the federal government to update our water legislation and address inter-provincial impacts of resource development on water flowing across provincial and territorial borders. The recent Gordon Water Group report highlights the urgency of updating and strengthening federal water policy.
c) Finally, we also need to work with municipalities and rural communities to give them the tools to ensure that the growing urban population across the country develops in a sustainable manner–and does not hinder the capacity of rural and agricultural communities to continue to survive.
Thus, we need a national strategy to help provinces and muncipalities address issues of urban sprawl, declining agricultural capacity, and the impacts of urban growth on the health and well-being of rural communities (ie: resources are extracted from rural areas to feed urban demands, which distributes the impacts of urban growth disproportianately upon the rural population).

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Ever-rising industrial and consumer demand for more power in tandem with cheap and abundant coal reserves across the globe are expected to result in the construction of new coal-fired power plants producing 1,400 gigawatts of electricity by 2030, according to the International Energy Agency. In the absence of emission controls, these new plants will increase worldwide annual emissions of carbon dioxide by approximately 7.6 billion metric tons by 2030. These emissions would equal roughly 50 percent of all fossil fuel emissions over the past 250 years.

Read the new Center for American Progress report at http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/05/coal_report.html

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