http://climateprogress.org/2007/03/21/who-is-amy-ridenour-and-why-is-she-so-confused-about-climate-change/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:39:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 http://climateprogress.org/2007/03/21/who-is-amy-ridenour-and-why-is-she-so-confused-about-climate-change/#comment-3403 Earl Killian Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:19:52 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/03/21/who-is-amy-ridenour-and-why-is-she-so-confused-about-climate-change/#comment-3403 A simple statistic is that imposing California efficiency standards at the Federal level and bringing U.S. electricity use per person down to California's level (i.e. going from 11,997 kWh per capita down to 6,732 kWh per capita in 2003) is the equivalent of building 217 new nuclear reactors in the U.S. Currently we have 104 reactors, so this would be like adding 209% to our reactor count. Efficiency is always better than building. All it takes is the political will in Washington DC to pass what California passed 30 years ago. It wouldn't hurt to make Arthur Rosenfeld U.S. energy czar either. A simple statistic is that imposing California efficiency standards at the Federal level and bringing U.S. electricity use per person down to California’s level (i.e. going from 11,997 kWh per capita down to 6,732 kWh per capita in 2003) is the equivalent of building 217 new nuclear reactors in the U.S. Currently we have 104 reactors, so this would be like adding 209% to our reactor count. Efficiency is always better than building. All it takes is the political will in Washington DC to pass what California passed 30 years ago. It wouldn’t hurt to make Arthur Rosenfeld U.S. energy czar either.

]]> http://climateprogress.org/2007/03/21/who-is-amy-ridenour-and-why-is-she-so-confused-about-climate-change/#comment-3404 Earl Killian Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:21:23 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/03/21/who-is-amy-ridenour-and-why-is-she-so-confused-about-climate-change/#comment-3404 A follow up on the above: http://www.energy.ca.gov/2005publications/CEC-999-2005-003/CEC-999-2005-003.PDF see page 12. A follow up on the above:
http://www.energy.ca.gov/ 2005publications/ CEC-999-2005-003/ CEC-999-2005-003.PDF
see page 12.

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