Browsing Tag 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
• Renewables

  Real cost of renewables

  The “Tragedy of the Commons” is an economic theory first authored by Garrett Hardin.  It states that individuals acting independently and rationally according to their own self-interest, behave contrary ...

  On October 4, 2015 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Renewables

  Factors that drive wind power

  Wind is good, anytime…anywhere! I like how they look and I like what they do.   But, have you ever noticed that all the success claims relate to ...

  On September 17, 2015 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• 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
• Environment

  The CO2 Budget – Let’s talk numbers

  The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its Annual Review – AR5 with a graphic that may help frame the Climate Change issue. The notion of a CO2 ...

  On August 22, 2015 / By Pete Baldwin