Going Deep Green: renewables to guarantee clean energy supply for export (discussion)
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The US is considering a climate and energy bill, H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES), amid much controversy over competing methods of calculating costs and benefits. Climate skeptics that rule out global climate change as a real long-term cost are concerned that energy-industry economics will be “distorted” by this legislation, leading to massive losses across the economy; environmentalists are concerned that widespread rapid climatic variation could destabilize not only natural ecosystems and reliable agriculture, but political institutions, borders and nation states.
An economically viable move away from carbon-based fuels would be beneficial for the US in alleviating the economic stresses of dependence on a specific resource and on the foreign governments who are its largest producers. It would also protect against the public health risks associated with air pollution from burning coal. If China, with four times the US population, were to reach the US per capita consumption of combustible fuels, it would emit the equivalent of 100% of the entire world’s emissions at the present time.
To prevent such a potentially harmful scenario unfolding, the US should accelerate its efforts to produce a nationwide clean energy production and distribution infrastructure with capacity of at least two times all US domestic consumption. Full development of wind resources alone in just three states (Texas, Kansas and North Dakota) could meet the entire domestic US energy demand. Products related to generating clean energy could be exported on an industrial scale, helping nations like China and India free themselves from reliance on carbon-based fuels, and the surplus production capacity could allow the US to become a net exporter of clean, environmentally neutral energy.
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