Highest CO2 Emitting Power Plants in the World
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June 20, 2008 - In the software industry, vaporware is a great new product announced by a developer, but is never released or is seriously delayed. Besides getting users’ hopes up, it can make potential customers hold off purchases of alternative solutions as they wait for the latest and greatest, which the developer swears is just around the corner. While vaporware is annoying, it’s arguably not much more than that for most people. But when it comes to clean tech, there is a lot more at stake, and betting on “clean coal” and carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) instead of real clean tech is a terrible idea.
Posted by: Robin Kraft
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June 5, 2008 - CARMA's operating philosophy is to maximize possible transparency, so it's only fair to shed some light onto how we calculated plant data. For the full CGD working paper, please read Calculating CARMA, Global Estimation of CO2 Emissions from the Power Sector by David Wheeler and Kevin Ummel.
CGD decided to focus on the power sector because it accounts for the most CO2 emissions (26%), and because it's better-documented any other CO2-emitting sector. With that being said, it was no cakewalk to process emissions data from numerous sources, and we recognize that our findings are still far from perfect.
CGD decided to focus on the power sector because it accounts for the most CO2 emissions (26%), and because it's better-documented any other CO2-emitting sector. With that being said, it was no cakewalk to process emissions data from numerous sources, and we recognize that our findings are still far from perfect.
Posted by: Matt Gibbs
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May 1, 2008 - As you may know, we just released a series of Widgets to help you explore CARMA. We've been looking at some of the plants tagged using the Improve Your CARMA widget, and there's a lot of really interesting results to share. The following are just a few plants that you helped find...
Posted by: Matt Gibbs
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April 29, 2008 -
One role of CARMA is to provide information on plant and firm-level CO2 emissions to local activists trying to block new coal fired powerplants. I am involved in one such effort in Northern Virginia, where a group with the wonderful name Interfaith Power and Light (GWIPLE) is working to organize religious organizations to combat climate change.
Posted by: Lawrence MacDonald
April 24, 2008 - The Confronting Climate Change team at CGD is always interested to see what happens to our work once it leaves our desktops and joins the “marketplace of ideas,” fighting to make it to the top of a mountain of information on environmental issues. So we thought we’d quickly share two recent sightings from two very different corners of the internet.
Posted by: Robin Kraft
