Article : A Plan TO keep Carbon IN Check
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- s societies git richer, the services sector grows in importance relative to energy-intensive activities. Shift lowers carbon intensity of an economy.
- Deeply ingrained in the patterns of technology evolution is the substitution of cleverness of energy.
- Hundreds of power plants are not needed because the world has invested in much more efficient electronics than were available 2 decades ago.
- Oil and gas fields have developed more slowly because aircraft engines consume less fuel
- Task of holding global emissions constant would be out of reach, were it not for the fact that all driving and flying in 2056 will be in vehicles not yet designed.
- Today's inefficient energy system can be replaced if the world gives unprecedented attention to energy efficiency.
- Dramatic changes are plausible over next 50 years
- Efficiency in electricity use is most obvious substitute for coal
- Of 14 billion tons of carbon emissions projected for 2056, 6 billion will come from producing power
- Residential and commercial buildings account for 60% of global electricity demand today and will consume most of the new power.
- Cutting building's electricity use in half would reduce 1 billion tons of emissions
- Equipping them with superefficient lighting and appliances could reduce 2 billion tons of emissions. Another billion could be reduced if industry finds additional ways to use electricity more efficiently
- High oil prices are lowering cost of the transition to technology that can capture CO2 and pump it into the ground
- Captured CO2 can be sold to an oil company that injects it into oil fields to squeeze out more oil
- High price of oil means more valuable the capture CO2.
- To achieve another reduction of CO2, utilities need to equip 800 coal plants to capture and store all CO2 emitted.
- Renewable energy, geothermal energy can reduce emissions
- Nuclear power was controversial
- Oil accounted for 43 percent of global carbon emissions in 2002, coal accounted for 37 percent
- Transportation must be decarbonized.
- Reduced use, improved efficiency and detrity would, the transport system could become more carbon-intensive.
- Coal-based synthetic fuels provide a way to reduce global demand for oil
- Farmers practicing no-till agriculture would contribute
- Eliminating deforestation also
- B: Summarize the AUTHOR’s main point or idea- at LEAST 1-2 paragraphs
The authos main point was that the Solutions don't need to be technological . Some other solutions include practicing no-till agriculture. Other examples include eliminating deforestation also, curtail emissions of methane and lower birth rates. Getting to these solutions would need the help of the creation of governments, new policies and utilities. What will we have accomplished by cutting emissions? The world will have confronted energy production and energy efficiency at the consumer level and electronic items, transportation and buildings will be transformed. Our descendants will not need to use a lot of money and humanity will learn to address collective density and to share the planet.
C: Write a reaction paragraph to the article stating your own thoughts on the topic, using specific citations from the article to support your views
I think this article will make the people on earth make people feel good about themslves.