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From the Electric Grid to Carbon Capture, and a Post-Christmas Chuckle

Posted on December 26, 2023 by Jane Shaw Stroup

From Ed Reid’s year in review: “The Administration has less than half a plan for the ‘all-electric everything’ transition. . . . There are . . . no plans in place for the timely expansion of grid capacity.”
Congressional earmarks are back. Here’s one for a solar plant in a not-so-sunny state.
Have a laugh with this EV Christmas cartoon.
Everything you need to know about carbon capture (from an economist’s perspective).

(And more!)

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Links: A Potpourri of News

Posted on October 16, 2023October 16, 2023 by Jane Shaw Stroup

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Biden Is Counting on Unproven Technologies to Meet Climate Goals

Posted on May 22, 2023 by Jane Shaw Stroup

Thanks to Rachel Frazin of The Hill, we have a good idea of the flimsiness of the EPA’s recent proposed ruling on coal- and gas-fired power plants. She observes that under the ruling, coal-fired power plants must cut their carbon dioxide emissions by 90 percent by 2030 if they expect to operate beyond 2039, while…

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Environmental Activists Oppose Carbon Capture as a ‘False Solution’

Posted on September 27, 2022September 27, 2022 by Jane Shaw Stroup

It’s hard to keep up with what environmental activists are against. (See Ron Bailey on solar geoengineering.) Now it’s carbon capture. Carbon capture (CCS) is the largely experimental technology for removing carbon dioxide during or after a combustion process and then storing it, usually underground. The Biden administration is promoting carbon capture, and this month Energy…

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