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by Roger Brown on 07/04/08

That the human population of the earth will eventually stop growing is indeed inevitable. That the earth's resources can...

Scope Insensitivity

by Ed Ring on 07/04/08

Roger: You make a good point. In the context of scope insensitivity, the immigration example is a good one. But the i...

Scope Insensitivity

by Roger Brown on 07/04/08

I do not really understand your comment about limiting immigration. You have stated elsewhere that you believe that glob...

Global Warming

by zancy on 07/03/08

Global warming is increase the average measured temperature of the Earth's. The Earth's climate is changed in response t...

Algae vs. Cellulose

by Rod Handeland on 07/03/08

With all the urgency of carbon dioxide capture from coal electric plants, why aren’t algae systems being tested on com...

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Can Forests Offset Automotive CO2?

Analysis & Commentary: "Auto Emissions & Forests"

(to calculate: click curser on, then off, yellow input cell)

How much CO2 will an automotive fleet emit per year?
		# cars
		miles driven per year per car
		kilometers driven per year per car
		average miles per gallon
		average kilometers per liter
		total gallons consumed per year
		total liters consumed per year
		total barrels consumed per year
		pounds CO2 per gallon gasoline
		kilograms CO2 per liter gasoline
		metric tons CO2 per year to offset

How much CO2 can a growing forest sequester each year?
		tons carbon per acre
		tons carbon per hectare
		growth period in years
		ratio of CO2 to carbon
		tons CO2 absorbed per year per acre
		tons CO2 absorbed per year per hectare

New forest area needed to offset automotive fleet emissions
		square miles to reforest
		square kilometers to reforest

How to use this calculator:

(1) It is sometimes necessary to click on one of the yellow input cells, then click somewhere else on the screen in order to prompt the interactive spreadsheet to calculate and display results.

(2) Yellow cells are input cells - you may enter your own assumptions in these cells.

(3) When you refresh the screen, the original default assumptions will reappear in the yellow input cells.

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California Global Warming Act

Assembly Bill 32, signed into law by California Governor Schwarzenegger in late 2006, took a big step closer to implementatio...

Algae vs. Cellulose

We have reported on the state of cellulosic ethanol development, and the potential of cellulosic ethanol, in our recent feat...

Energy Intensity

One of the most useful ways to measure how efficiently we use energy is to calculate how many units of energy are required to...

Scope Insensitivity

Al Gore has said Americans are addicted to "short term thinking." He is correct. Even in the business world, which is presum...

Caterpillar and CleanAIR

We have never simply posted a press release, but they remain essential to keeping track of what's going on out there. Today w...

Editor-at-Large Posts

Shrimp Survivalists

Just a little rain transforms the desert floor into an entirely different atmosphere. Branchiopod cysts that mingle with the ...

Nanoventskin-MicroTurbines

Air power is becoming a more common investment. Huge turbines line coasts and hills where constant winds whip through to spin...

The Living Tower

Getting fruits and vegetables onto the kitchen table is a stressful affair. Farmers constantly deal with pests, weather chan...

Mohawk-Yarn From Plastic

Companies are looking to landfills to make their products more "green" by using recycled materials that would otherwise end u...

Garbage Fueled Garbage Trucks

Landfill gas is an appealing alternative to increasingly expensive oil-based fuels. This type of biogas is a mixture of metha...

Guest Editor Posts

The scare du jour, du week, du

For the last few weeks it's tomatos, those wonderful fruits. Over 300 cases of salmonella poisoning from eating tomatoes (ma...

Do BBQs Cause Cancer?

In the U.S., Memorial day is BBQ day, especially this year when gasoline prices make lots of folks prefer to stay home and ha...

The Alarm Industry

by Marc Morano - Newsweek Magazine's cover story of August 13, 2007 entitled, "The Truth About Denial" contains very littl...

India Incentivizes Renewables

Earlier this month at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2008, heads of state, ministers, policymakers, corporate leade...

Emissions Trading in China

By Terry Wang, Interfax China, March 6, 2008 China is ready to adopt a nationwide permit-based pollutant emission trading ...

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