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Measures that some legislators favor, such as transforming
coal
into liquids, increase secure supplies, but they imply more carbon dioxide emissions than imported oil does.
They should be avoided until technologies for clean
coal
or carbon capture are perfected.
China and India can pursue security of supply by using their large
coal
resources, but unless they also have access to improved
coal
technology, the burdens they impose on the atmosphere will be large.
The Responsible Investor’s Guide to Climate ChangeNEW YORK – Around the world, institutional investors – including pension funds, insurance companies, philanthropic endowments, and universities – are grappling with the question of whether to divest from oil, gas, and
coal
companies.
Moreover, divestment would help accelerate that shift, by starving the industry of investment capital – or at least raising the cost of capital to firms that are carrying out irresponsible oil, gas, and
coal
exploration and development, despite the urgent need to cut back.
This is mainly because it burns cleaner than
coal
or oil.
A carbon tax, long advocated by a broad spectrum of economists, is a generalized version of a gas tax that hits all forms of carbon emissions, including from
coal
and natural gas.
We wouldn’t have to force (or subsidize) anyone to stop burning
coal
and oil.
In considering the significance of the proposed treaty, it is important to remember that European integration began with the creation of a common market for
coal
and steel.
So far, it seems clear that Clinton appeals to better-educated urban voters, while Trump attracts mainly less-educated white men, many of whom in earlier generations would have been Democrat-voting
coal
miners or industrial workers.
Around 80% of the world’s primary energy today is carbon based: coal, oil, and gas.
Third, we face steeply rising prices for fossil fuels, as developing countries’ growth drives up demand and conventional supplies of coal, oil, and gas are depleted.
So developing CCS or an alternative that allows
coal
to become clean energy is essential for meeting the 2050 goal.
For example,
coal
plants, if they are to remain a major part of the energy mix, will need to capture and store their CO2, a process called “carbon capture and sequestration,” or CCS for short.
China’s future choices depend on whether “clean coal” can really work effectively and on a large scale.
A New Path to a Low-Carbon EconomyNEW YORK – The solution to manmade climate change depends on the transition to electricity production that, unlike burning oil, natural gas, and coal, emits little or no carbon dioxide – the main greenhouse gas responsible for global warming.
Coal
is a cheaper and more easily used energy source than the alternatives.
The obvious way is to tax coal, or to require power plants to have permits to use coal, and to set the tax or permit price high enough to induce a shift towards the low-carbon alternatives.
Suppose
coal
produces electricity at a cost of $0.06 per kilowatt-hour, while solar power costs $0.16/kilowatt-hour.
In that case, consumers would pay $0.16/kilowatt-hour for either
coal
or solar.
Suppose that we levy a small tax on existing
coal
power plants in order to pay for the solar subsidy, and then gradually raise consumers’ electricity bills as more and more solar plants are phased in.
The price charged to consumers would rise gradually from $0.06/kilowatt-hour to the full cost of $0.16/kilowatt-hour, but over a phase-in period of, say, 40 years (the lifespan of the newest of today’s
coal
plants).
The
coal
tax for 2014 is then set at $0.01/kilowatt-hour, which is just enough to pay the needed solar subsidy of $0.09/kilowatt-hour.
A small
coal
tax can support a large solar subsidy.
The
coal
tax is now raised to $0.05/kilowatt-hour, just enough to cover the solar subsidy of $0.05/kilowatt-hour.
Moreover, the government budget is balanced every year, since the
coal
tax pays for the solar subsidy.
Today’s solar power plants might cost an extra $0.10/kilowatt-hour compared to coal, but such plants will be much less costly in the future because of improved technology.
The political community of the 1950’s that France had persuaded its five European partners to accept was supposed to absorb both the European
Coal
and Steel Community and the EDC.
When the McKinsey Global Institute analyzed more than 2,000 Chinese companies in industries ranging from
coal
and steel to auto manufacturing and retail, it found opportunities to raise productivity by 20-100% by 2030.
Over the past decade, overcapacity has reduced annual returns on capital in the country’s
coal
and steel industries from 17% to 6%.
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