[BLDG-SIM] Tackling Climate Change report from the Amcerican Solar Energy Society

Vikram Sami VSami at lasarchitect.com
Thu Feb 1 11:23:00 PST 2007


FYI - not directly related to the content of this listserve, so excuse
the cross posting, but I think this will be interesting to most of us
here.
 

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From: Carolyn Beach [mailto:cbeach at ases.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 10:36 PM
To: Vikram Sami
Subject: Tackling Climate Change report from the Amcerican Solar Energy
Society



 

 ASES Logo<http://www.ases.org/images/index/logo_horiz.gif> 

E-News Alert 
 	
 Globe<http://www.ases.org/climatechange/images/globe.gif> ASES Releases
Landmark Report - Tackling Climate Change in the U.S.: Potential Carbon
Emissions Reductions from Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy by 2030


The result of more than a year of study, the report illustrates how
energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies can provide the
emissions reductions required to address global warming.

To develop the report, ASES recruited a volunteer team of top energy
experts. These experts produced a series of nine papers that examined
how energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies can reduce U.S.
carbon dioxide emissions-the main cause of global warming. 

ASES collected the nine papers together and added an overview of the
studies to create the report. It covers energy efficiency in buildings,
transportation, and industry, as well as six renewable energy
technologies: concentrating solar power, photovoltaics, wind power,
biomass, biofuels, and geothermal power. The results indicate that these
technologies can displace approximately 1.2 billion tons of carbon
emissions annually by the year 2030-the magnitude of reduction that
scientists believe is necessary to prevent the most dangerous
consequences of climate change. 

The report, edited by Chuck Kutscher, illustrates how energy efficiency
measures could keep U.S. carbon emissions roughly constant over the next
23 years as the economy grows, and how renewable energy technologies
could make deep cuts below today's emissions. Wind energy provides about
35% of the renewable energy contribution, while the rest is divided
about evenly among the other technologies. "Energy efficiency and
renewable energy technologies can begin to be deployed on a large scale
today to help save us from the worst consequences of global warming,"
said Kutscher. "With continued R&D to lower costs and a reasonable level
of policy support, they have the potential to meet most, if not all, of
the carbon reductions that will be required in the future."

The report is available as a free download at
www.ases.org/climatechange. High-quality graphics showing the various
emissions reductions and deployment locations are also available at that
site. 

You can help by letting your friends, colleagues, co-workers, state and
local government officials and representatives, and your local newspaper
know about the report. A press release that you can forward is available
at www.ases.org/climatechange



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