A Convenient Guide to Climate Change Policy and Technology
Volume 1 - Technology
Introduction to Volume 1 - Technology
Chapter 1 – Electricity Demand
Chapter 2 – Electricity Supply
- Existing Fleet
- Repowering Coal Plants
- Biomass Co-Firing at Coal Plants
- Increased Maintenance to Optimize Efficiency for All Plants
- Plant Retrofit
- New Technologies
- Fossil Fuel Combustion: Pulverized Coal
- Fossil Fuel Combustion: IGCC
- Fossil Fuel Comustion: Natural Gas Combined Cycle
- Fossil Fuel Combustion: Fuel Cells
- Fossil Fuel Combustion: Natural Gas Turbines
- Nuclear Energy
- Renewable Energy: Wind
- Renewable Energy: Solar
- Renewable Energy: Hydroelectric Power
- Renewable Energy: Geothermal
- Renewable Energy: Ocean Thermal
- Renewable Energy: Waves
- Renewable Energy: Tidal
- Renewable Energy: Biomass
- Renewable Energy: Landfill Gas
- Fossil Fuel Combustion: Pulverized Coal
- Electricity Infrastructure
Chapter 3 – Sequestration of Carbon
A Convenient Guide to Climate Change Policy and Technology
Volume 2 - Policy
Introduction to Volume 2 - Policy
Chapter 1 - Barriers and Challenges
Chapter 2 - Federal Climate Policy Options
- Cap-and-Trade
- Carbon Tax
- Comparing Cap-and-Trade and Carbon Tax
- Linking US Trading System to the Kyoto Protocol
- Political Considerations for Climate Policy
- Climate-Related Proposal Overviews