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8 - What Doesn’t Work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2023

Mark Z. Jacobson
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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Aside from implementing WWS and storage technologies, the main suggestions for reducing or eliminating energy-related emissions have included using natural gas for electricity instead of coal, using natural gas or coal with carbon capture, using nuclear power instead of fossil fuels for electricity, using biomass with or without carbon capture for electricity, using liquid biofuels instead of gasoline or diesel for transportation, and using blue instead of green hydrogen. Non-energy-producing methods have also been proposed to remediate global warming. These include primarily synthetic direct air carbon capture and geoengineering. Policies that include these technologies along with WWS technologies are referred to as “all-of-the-above” policies, since they involve promoting most all technologies, regardless of their side effects, cost, effectiveness, or length of time between planning and operation. The justification for using these technologies is that they are a bridge between current carbon-intense technologies and WWS. This chapter discusses these non-WWS technologies and delineates the reasons why they are not needed or helpful for solving global warming, air pollution, and energy security problems.

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No Miracles Needed
How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air
, pp. 129 - 191
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • What Doesn’t Work
  • Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford University, California
  • Book: No Miracles Needed
  • Online publication: 02 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009249553.010
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  • What Doesn’t Work
  • Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford University, California
  • Book: No Miracles Needed
  • Online publication: 02 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009249553.010
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  • What Doesn’t Work
  • Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford University, California
  • Book: No Miracles Needed
  • Online publication: 02 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009249553.010
Available formats
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