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Today's Technology |
Actions that Provide 1 Gt/year of CO2 Mitigation |
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Coal Plants |
Replace 1000 conventional 500-MW plants with "zero-emission" power plants |
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Geologic Sequestration |
Install 3700 sequestration sites the size of Norway's Sleipner Project |
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Nuclear |
Build 500 1-GW plants |
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Efficiency |
Deploy 1 billion cars running at 40 mpg instead of 20 mpg |
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Wind |
Install 150× current U.S. wind generation |
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Solar photovoltaics |
Install 10,000× current U.S. solar PV generation |
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Biomass fuels from plantations |
Globally convert open land >15× the size of Iowa's farmland to biomass production |
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Storage in new forests |
Reforest open land >40× the size of Iowa's farmland |
Text adapted from Genomics:GTL Roadmap: Systems Biology for Energy and Environment, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, August 2005. DOE/SC-0090.
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