Sunday, July 27, 2008

Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy

The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research is offering a free and important book Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, laying out a strong argument that:

  • It is possible to physically eliminate CO2 emissions from the U.S. energy sector without resort to nuclear power, which has serious security and other vulnerabilities.
  • A zero-CO2 economy is possible without purchasing offsets from other countries (that is, without purchasing from other countries the right to continue emitting CO2 in the United States)
  • It is possible to accomplish the above at reasonable cost.

Read for yourself, and then decide for yourself:

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