HOW TO FIX GLOBAL WARMING AND GAIN ENERGY SECURITY

From: Rachel's Democracy & Health News #990, Dec. 18, 2008
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HOW TO FIX GLOBAL WARMING AND GAIN ENERGY SECURITY

By Peter Montague

A detailed new report from Stanford University reviews and ranks
major energy-related solutions to global warming, air pollution
deaths, and energy security. The report is available now online with
extensive supplementary materials, and will soon appear in the
journal Energy & Environmental Solutions. The author is Mark Z.
Jacobson, director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program at Stanford in
Palo Alto, Calif.

[Read Stanford's press release announcing the study or this news
story from R&D Magazine, or watch a video of Mark Jacobson
discussing his new study.]

The report assumes that all U.S. gasoline-powered vehicles will shift
entirely to electric power or ethanol fuel, and it then compares 10
ways of generating the necessary electricity and two ways of making
ethanol fuel (basically, from corn or cellulose). Each of these 12
options is then evaluated against 11 different criteria and a final
ranking is calculated.

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