Climate Letter #454

Update on the development of offshore wind power around the US.  Rather quietly, things have been happening that could become exciting.  “The potential for offshore wind power generation in the U.S. is staggering. At a projected 4,223 gigawatts (GW) of electric generating potential (with the Ohio waters of Lake Erie alone accounting for more than 50 GW of that power), offshore wind offers a viable, untapped opportunity for large-scale clean energy projects that produce zero emissions in operation, consume no water, and displace the generation from some of our nation’s dirtiest power plants.”  http://climatecrocks.com/2015/07/29/offshore-wind-begins-us-take-off/

Nor should you rule out an important future for geothermal energy.  The real reason that geothermal has not taken off more quickly as a major resource is not widely recognized, and is highly correctable.  Viable resources are actually quite plentiful.  http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Geothermal-Energy/What-Is-Really-Keeping-Geothermal-Power-Back.html

An important carbon sink has been newly identified.  It exists by way of the formation of aquifers beneath many of the world’s deserts, which store surprising amounts of carbon that is nearly permanent if left alone..  What is even more surprising is a finding by researchers that much of that carbon was put there by humans, through agricultural mechanisms that have been in place for a few thousands of years.  This is a sink which is not likely to soon become undone, unlike most of the others.   http://phys.org/news/2015-07-carbon-world.html

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How much do you know about the true scope of mining operations on the Alberta tar sands?  This TED talk presentation given four years ago is a well-photographed eye-opener.  Now the situation is even worse.   http://www.ted.com/talks/garth_lenz_images_of_beauty_and_devastation

Carl

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