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Bound to Burn
Humanity will keep spewing carbon into the atmosphere, but good policy can help sink it back into the earth.
TEUN VOETEN/SIPA
Cheap coal, like that extracted from this Chinese mine, is essential to the developing world’s economic growth.
Like medieval priests, today’s carbon brokers will sell you an indulgence that forgives your carbon sins. [...]
Another top-level view from Peter Huber.
Executive Summary
Electricity—not oil—is the heart of the U.S. energy economy. Power plants consume as much raw energy as oil delivers to all our cars, trucks, planes, homes, factories, offices, and chemical plants. Because big power plants operate very efficiently, they also deliver much more useful power than car engines and [...]
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