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Carbon Mitigation in the Power Sector
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Rising, Bruce |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | The human connection to global scale weather and climate boils down to $CO_{2}$ emissions from three primary activities: Power generation, transportation, and industrial-commercial operations. While other pollutants (e.g., PM, sulfates, and tropospheric ozone) also exhibit the capacity to absorb or reflect incoming solar radiation, $CO_{2}$, an infrared absorbing poly-atomic molecule, has been assigned the bulk of the blame. Broad assessments of continental temperature shifts reveal noticeable changes taking place. Data presented in Figure 1 from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) on heating and cooling degree days for the United States suggests that summers do appear to be getting warmer, and winters milder (EIA, EIA Monthly Energy Review April 2018, 2018). With this data covering approximately 3,000,000 square miles, it represents a formidable set of data, suggesting that warming is taking place. Figure 1 Cooling degree days (CDD) and heating degree days (HDD) in the continental U.S. (Source: EIA Monthly Energy Review Table 1.9 and Table 1.10 Heating and Cooling Degree Days by Census Division). Book Name: Advances in Carbon Management Technologies |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2018-0-95977-7&isbn=9780429243608&doi=10.1201/9780429243608-9&format=pdf |
| Ending Page | 146 |
| Page Count | 15 |
| Starting Page | 132 |
| DOI | 10.1201/9780429243608-9 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2020-03-19 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Advances in Carbon Management Technologies Atmospheric Sciences Cooling Degree |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
