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The Great Plains: America’S Carbon Vault, William Davidson
The Great Plains: America’S Carbon Vault, William Davidson
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
As a nation we are starting a race against climate change, a competitor who has had a very long head start and only plans on picking up the pace. The Clean Power Plan has laid a blueprint to lower carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning power plants nationwide, a crucial step in recovering from decades of pollution. Meeting these goals will take years and greenhouse gasses will continue to accumulate throughout the process. Efforts beyond the scope of this plan must also be made in order to prevent emissions from sources not specifically addressed, namely sources of carbon that cannot …
Calculating The Methan-Matics Of Our Future, Victoria Salinas
Calculating The Methan-Matics Of Our Future, Victoria Salinas
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In the first two decades after its release, methane, a green house gas, is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Historically, atmospheric concentrations of methane remained fairly stable at around 750 ppb, significantly less than today’s levels of 1,800 ppb. Unfortunately, agricultural activity accounts for about one-fifth of total global greenhouse gas emissions, while the current production of ruminants contributes nearly 80% of these emissions due to their large populations, body size and appetites, and the anaerobic microbial fermentation that occurs during digestion. Because of methane’s severe impact on the climate, methane emissions, specifically due to the production of …
Willingness To Pay Today For A Cleaner Tomorrow, Yukihira Naoe
Willingness To Pay Today For A Cleaner Tomorrow, Yukihira Naoe
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To a ten year old boy on a tedious trip across the country side, few views are more fascinating than a wind farm. Massive turbines spin slowly as if to emphasize their preposterous size and magnificence. In an era where increasing global attention is brought to climate change, renewable energy is carving its way into the minds of billions. This once free roadside attraction is now something that in the near future, we must pay and patronize, and this is where my literature begins, how willing are we to pay for renewable energy? Are you willing to pay to give …
When Addressing Climate Change, Don’T Forget Animal Agriculture, Aaron Matzke
When Addressing Climate Change, Don’T Forget Animal Agriculture, Aaron Matzke
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As COP 21 closes in Paris, global animal agriculture is a topic that has eluded the international media. Animal agriculture is responsible for more global greenhouse gas emissions than transportation according to the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization. With global population and prosperity rising, the global meat supply is expected to nearly double by 2050. This increase in production will only be achieved if significant steps are taken to promote sustainability through existing techniques globally, and to regulate air contamination in industrial feedlots in the United States. Alternative meat production methods, which have seen considerable investment recently, could supplement animal …
U.S. Vehicle Efficiency Standards, Derek Baylog
U.S. Vehicle Efficiency Standards, Derek Baylog
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The United States is a driving force of the global economy and a major innovator in the technology sector. For decades the world has looked to The United States as a leader of great technological advancements with the strong economy to allow investors a chance make these technologies a reality. So why is it now that we lag behind other countries when it comes to making our technology energy efficient? Sure we’ve been steadily growing our production of renewable resources with wind and solar energy, bet we are still behind in the second largest source of pollution, transportation. According to …
Energy Subsidies And The Future Of Power, Christian Jewett
Energy Subsidies And The Future Of Power, Christian Jewett
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The modern political climate has grown rife with talk concerning the use of fossil fuels as an energy source and how this may impact our planet for generations to come. The Left and the Right seem to be at odds over whether or not climate change is actually occurring, or who is causing it. Additionally, the energy industry likes to tout their “low-cost” energy sources as a boon to the global economy as well as a benefit to the consumer at large. However, are coal, oil, and natural gas truly the “cheapest” sources of energy? Whether or not one believes …
Making Walkable Communities, Katie Zuehlke
Making Walkable Communities, Katie Zuehlke
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There is no doubt that global warming is happening. With all the rage about climate change and global warming people should be doing more about it than just reading about it in the news. We should be making efforts towards making changes on a local level. This in turn could grow to a national level with more and more people participating in the movement and actually make global changes, instead of just talking about it. When the scale of participants grows the scale of the changes made will grow as well and this will be the beginning of the changes …
Incentives Critical To Full Wind Power Potential In Nebraska, Michael Neale
Incentives Critical To Full Wind Power Potential In Nebraska, Michael Neale
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On August 3rd, President Obama and the EPA announced the Clean Power Plan (CPP) with the goal of cutting 32% of carbon emissions nationwide by 2030. The plan institutes carbon reduction requirements for all states based on their current sources of energy, for Nebraska the goal is 40%. The next day, Governor Ricketts and his Attorney General announced they would be fighting the mandate in court; stating the plan is unlawful federal government overreach, while expressing concerns the reduction are infeasible in the timeframe given and will drive up electricity costs. Governor Ricketts misses the point on this. Reducing carbon …
The Tax Of The Century, Anna Wistrom
The Tax Of The Century, Anna Wistrom
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
The current economic standing of the United States is nothing like it was back in the 20’s when “business was booming”. There are some businesses today that are still above water despite these difficult times and they are mainly fossil fuel companies. The United States, along with other develOp-ed and developing countries, has a strong and crippling addiction to these cheap and dirty fuels. The goal of several recent environmental conventions has been to find a way to decrease the amount harmful gas that is emitted from these fuels into our atmosphere. Clean energy technologies always seem to be the …
Confusing Cafe Standards, Logan Neal
Confusing Cafe Standards, Logan Neal
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
Our homes are one of our most prized possessions, because of the many things it provides. Trying to keep your house from falling apart, can seem like a never ending task. If you neglect these tasks your house can go from a home to a death trap very quickly. While your house is your home, the earth is home to you, your home, along with generation yet to be born. Just like your individual home, the earth requires tasks to be done to keep it from killing us all. Today addressing the problem of greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions needs to …
The Clean Power Plan Needs To Be A Law, Mitchell Frischmeyer
The Clean Power Plan Needs To Be A Law, Mitchell Frischmeyer
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
The Clean Power Plan (CPP) is a long overdue policy which is necessary to direct national investment in emerging markets and create an intelligent energy infrastructure that strives to operate at max efficiency. To this point, the US has develOp-ed using inefficient and dirty fuels, a method which allowed for cheap and reliable energy generation, but is largely responsible for the change in global climate. If we expect to prevent climate change, our energy infrastructure must be reformed. Countries like Denmark have led the way in energy reform by creating policies set to reach 100% renewable generation by 2050 (8). …
Biodigestor: Rural Power Plant, Felipe Ribeiro Bozza
Biodigestor: Rural Power Plant, Felipe Ribeiro Bozza
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Biodigestor: Rural Power Plant
Social Policies As Subsidy For Environmental Education: A Citizen Behavioral Change Tool, Gracielle Peixoto
Social Policies As Subsidy For Environmental Education: A Citizen Behavioral Change Tool, Gracielle Peixoto
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
Social Policies as subsidy for Environmental Education: A citizen behavioral change tool
One Tragedy, One Action, Amy Fosler
One Tragedy, One Action, Amy Fosler
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
One Tragedy, One Action
Leveling The Financial Playing Field For Renewables, Taylor Nissen
Leveling The Financial Playing Field For Renewables, Taylor Nissen
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
Leveling the Financial Playing Field for Renewables
Great Economic Growth Versus Sustainability, Maria Brandao
Great Economic Growth Versus Sustainability, Maria Brandao
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
Great Economic Growth versus Sustainability
It Is Always Possible, Ivan Makino
It Is Always Possible, Ivan Makino
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
It Is Always Possible
Say No To Natural Gas, Alex Bruening
Say No To Natural Gas, Alex Bruening
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
Say No to Natural Gas
Iowa Does It Better: Necessary Role Model Needed To Up Nebraska’S Poor Recycling Diversion Rates, Brian Burris
Iowa Does It Better: Necessary Role Model Needed To Up Nebraska’S Poor Recycling Diversion Rates, Brian Burris
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Iowa Does It Better: Necessary Role Model needed to Up Nebraska’s Poor Recycling Diversion Rates
What The Frack?, Carson Schwalbach
What The Frack?, Carson Schwalbach
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
What The Frack?
Why Keystone Pipeline Xl Construction Doesn’T Matter Either Way, Melissa Allen
Why Keystone Pipeline Xl Construction Doesn’T Matter Either Way, Melissa Allen
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
Why Keystone Pipeline XL Construction Doesn’t Matter Either Way
Biofuels: Good And Bad, Megan Neve
Biofuels: Good And Bad, Megan Neve
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
Biofuels: Good and Bad
A Call For Congressional Climate Action, Calvin Harman
A Call For Congressional Climate Action, Calvin Harman
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
A Call for Congressional Climate Action
Potential Biogas Production On Livestock Operations, Mariana Baia
Potential Biogas Production On Livestock Operations, Mariana Baia
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
Potential Biogas Production on Livestock Operations
The Clean Power Plan – Has The Epa Got It Right…, Brooke Welsh
The Clean Power Plan – Has The Epa Got It Right…, Brooke Welsh
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
The Clean Power Plan – Has the EPA Got It Right…
The Cost Of Change, Thomas Mcguire
The Cost Of Change, Thomas Mcguire
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
The Cost of Change
Nuclear Power Gateway To A Sustainable Energy Sector, Tyler Glewwe
Nuclear Power Gateway To A Sustainable Energy Sector, Tyler Glewwe
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
Nuclear Power Gateway to a Sustainable Energy Sector
Energy Race To Save The Planet, Ty Rempe
Energy Race To Save The Planet, Ty Rempe
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
Energy Race to Save the Planet
Corn Ethanol, A Bad Idea, Taylor Hackbart
Corn Ethanol, A Bad Idea, Taylor Hackbart
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
Corn Ethanol, A Bad Idea
Hydraulic Fracturing: Restoring Public Health And Safety As A Top Priority, Brian Barnes
Hydraulic Fracturing: Restoring Public Health And Safety As A Top Priority, Brian Barnes
Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies
Hydraulic Fracturing: Restoring Public Health and Safety as a Top Priority