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Environment
Reconciling coal use with climate change

At some point, the country will need to find the middle ground between “The War on Coal” and “Climate Change”. I have spent the last 12 years on ...
On November 30, 2016 / By Pete Baldwin
Environment
A case for carbon capture on gas too

SNL published an article entitled “As gas tops coal for carbon emissions, Sierra Club sees next climate fight”, based on an interview with Lena Moffitt. The article was ...
On September 3, 2016 / By Pete Baldwin
Energy & Conference News
Conference for whom? Technology developers or users?

The ASME Power & Energy Conference – 2016 featured five co-located events, plus the International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. Power Conference Energy Sustainability Fuel Cell Gas Turbine (Forum) ...
On July 30, 2016 / By Pete Baldwin
Environment
The EIA just said that Clean Power Plan is not good enough!

Of course, they did not say it that way, exactly, but here is what they did say. The Center for Strategic and International Studies published its International Energy ...
On June 25, 2016 / By Pete Baldwin
Environment
We are heading toward 4°C increase in temperature

The Center for Strategic and International Studies published its International Energy Outlook 2016 on May 11, 2016. A reference to the www.eia.gov follows the tag line “Independent Statistics ...
On May 24, 2016 / By Pete Baldwin
Environment
“Mission Accomplished?”

That would depend on how the “mission” is defined…right? The Sierra Club published a Fact Sheet dated November 3, 2015, “Accelerating the U.S. Coal Phase Out: Leading by ...
On February 12, 2016 / By Pete Baldwin
Environment
CO2 from gas turbines is the same as CO2 from coal plants

Under the new Clean Power Plan, the EPA calculates state goals based on the Best System of Emission Reduction (BSER), and has now established separate emissions performance rates ...
On November 12, 2015 / By Pete Baldwin
Environment
Why Clean Power Plan 2015 will not deliver 2ºC goal

We looked at The CO2 budget – Let’s talk numbers in the first part of this series. The second article, No wonder gas turbines are selling at record levels, was about the ...
On September 9, 2015 / By Pete Baldwin
Environment
Has switching to gas helped in reducing CO2 emissions?

We looked at The CO2 budget – Let’s talk numbers in the first part of this series. The second article, No wonder gas turbines are selling at record levels, was ...
On September 5, 2015 / By Pete Baldwin
Environment
No wonder gas turbines are selling at record levels

We looked at The CO2 budget – Let’s talk numbers in the first part of this series. In this article we look at: “Current competitive positioning: Pending EPA ...
On September 3, 2015 / By Pete Baldwin