Emission trading scheme (EU ETS) is Europe’s effort to develop a market based solution to reduce emission of greenhouse gases that are cited to be major cause for global warming. The jury is still out there on whether the scheme has been a success or not, but certainly the volume of trading in carbon credits have exploded in recent years
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January 7, 2009 lecture by Lee Schipper for the Woods Energy Seminar (ENERGY301). In his talk “When the Rubber Hits the Road: The Real Story on Fuel Economy in the US and other Developed Countries, with Implications for Developing Asia,” Schipper discusses better and more realistic fuel economy options in the US and other industrialized nations.
The Woods Energy Seminar is an interdisciplinary series of talks primarily by Stanford experts on a broad range of energy topics. Lee Schipper is a Senior Research Engineer at the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency at Stanford University.
Woods Institute for the Environment
http://woods.stanford.edu/
Stanford Channel on YouTube:
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Duration : 1:1:26
The ETS will cost New Zealanders wage earners $2.30/hour or $90.00/week, loose 25,000 jobs the values of farm land is going to collapse (in the case of dairy farmers by 40%) And New Zealand produces so little carbon dioxide that if NZ was wiped off the map tomorrow a graph measuring the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the air wouldn’t look any different. of dollars. Neither can we afford to be paying billions of dollars to places like Russia in ETS taxes. Be the Difference - Party Vote ACT
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Everyone contributes to carbon dioxide emissions, but some more than others. Reducing global CO2 emissions requires that we have a good understanding of the current picture. Serious progress can be made if we develop a renewable source of electricity that is cheaper than coal.
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http://actonco2.direct.gov.uk/
This short film shows how energy use in your home creates CO2 emissions, and how we can all reduce our emissions to help tackle climate change.
Description of the film (transcript)
Open on an out of focus red flickering light that fills most of the screen. The camera pulls back and focuses to reveal the flickering light charger. The charger seems to pulse as if there is an internal energy trying to burst out.
The camera pulls back further and then takes off on a journey around a modern home picking up examples of energy wastage in the home.
We see it pass through the kitchen, then through a utility room and past the washing machine. As the camera finds all of these examples of energy wastage, each appliance appears to pulse with an internal energy trying to escape.
The camera passes through the living room and finds a TV then it moves and finds the flame of the boiler, then follows to the boiler and a hot tap leaking out hot water. It continues through a bedroom where more appliances are throbbing with energy. Then it goes through another bedroom, looks like a child’s with TV and computer console on.
Then the camera pans through the house and see various other switches left on and the heating, then follows the energy stream as it first journeys through some circuit boards and then joins the electricity main, which leads from the house.
Voice over:
‘Energy-dependent home appliances are part of our modern way of life. Most of the energy they use comes from burning gas, oil and coal, which emit carbon dioxide - CO2 - into the atmosphere, changing the planet’s climate.’
The camera cuts higher and higher as we see each street and then each district of a town combine their energy streams and one stream shoots off across the countryside until we reach a power station where (animated) CO2 is belching in to the atmosphere.
Voice over:
‘We also waste large amounts of energy unnecessarily, which only increases CO2 emissions affecting the climate even further.’
The camera keeps going higher revealing eventually seeing the Earth from space. But instead of the beautiful, blue planet we are used to seeing it is enveloped in (animated) CO2 making it take on a ‘reddish’ hue. The Earth almost seems to pulse as all the appliances have before it.
The ‘reddish’ Earth mixes through to the flickering red light of the charger in the opening shot. As the camera pulls back again, a hand reaches in and turns off the switch.
Voice over:
‘We are now producing more C02 than the world can cope with.’
We then see a series of shots as the energy wastage shown in the first sequence is dealt with. As each appliance is dealt with it stops pulsing.
Series of shots: TV being switched off, plug socket switched off, tap turned off to stop the leaking hot water, heating turned down, mobile phone charger being switched off - we then see energy efficient light bulb, loft installation, street scene.
Voice over:
‘We can only tackle climate change, if we all act, now — together — by using and wasting less energy and therefore, reduce the CO2 emissions we are each responsible for.’
We end to see parents walking their children and cyclists on the street with no cars. We track past solar panels on the roofs of houses and see the wind turbines in the background. Ends with earth from space back to the way we are used to seeing it - as a beautiful, blue planet.
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This new technology converts gases from industries burning fossil fuels into energy. Very cheap, visit www.absalutecology.com for more details.
The technology makes burning coal, oil, rubbish with nearly 0% pollution possible. Recycling has never been a more profitable and environmentaly friendly possiblilty then it is now. Spread the news and avoid a nuclear future. Not excatly sustainable living, but at least we’ll avoid the worst of climate change if we act soon. This technology cleans toxic gasses of impurities such as CO2, SO2, Nitrogen gas, and dust particles. Keeping the air clean at a very low cost.
This video is not directly supported by greenpeace, although its aim is to provide a simlar service as greenpeace, to protect the environment while accomodating the needs of human expansion and growth.
Absalutecology: Creating a solution to the global environmental and economic problem of air pollution.
Webby: http://www.absalutecology.com/
Duration : 0:9:48
EnviroMission, Ltd. (www.enviromission.com.au; US Stock Market: EVOMY, Australian Stock Exchange: 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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Promo for Sandbag.org.uk