Comments on: Cap and Trade Works. EU Replaces Coal Power with Wind Energy http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/26/cap-and-trade-works-eu-replaces-coal-power-with-wind-energy/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: John ONeill http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/26/cap-and-trade-works-eu-replaces-coal-power-with-wind-energy/#comment-99805 Wed, 25 May 2011 11:15:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=18984#comment-99805 The figures quoted for new renewable energy are capacity, not actual energy supplied. For wind this can be as low as 20% in some areas, and solar in much of Germany is even worse. Note that the four countries stated as meeting their Kyoto obligations include France and Sweden, which derive a large part of their elctricity from nuclear power, but not Denmark or Germany, the poster children for renewables

]]> By: commenter http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/26/cap-and-trade-works-eu-replaces-coal-power-with-wind-energy/#comment-57376 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:54:51 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=18984#comment-57376 you conveniently left out how much the green industry pays the media, not just the fossil industry.

]]> By: Carbonfund Tells US “Stay Away From Cancun” – CleanTechnica: Cleantech innovation news and views http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/26/cap-and-trade-works-eu-replaces-coal-power-with-wind-energy/#comment-53996 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:12:32 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=18984#comment-53996 […] PolicyCap and Trade Works. EU Replaces Coal Power with Wind Energy Home […]

]]> By: Green Electricity http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/26/cap-and-trade-works-eu-replaces-coal-power-with-wind-energy/#comment-53834 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:49:28 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=18984#comment-53834 Finally some good news out on the green energy front! I do agree with you that it really depends on who you’re talking to. Fossil fuel “trolls” would like to have us believe that alternative energy projects are not making progress at all, not only in the EU, but everywhere. That despite the crucifying gas prices and the harm to the environment, fossil fuels are still the only choice we have. Figures never lie, though. Slowly but surely, green energy’s time will come… with the support of everyone.

]]> By: Ed Swanson http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/26/cap-and-trade-works-eu-replaces-coal-power-with-wind-energy/#comment-53833 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:47:12 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=18984#comment-53833 The Cap and Trade advocates need to recognize that it may work for narrow objectives of limited duration. Large-scale application using casino-like market forces are potentially disruptive, often creating gains for those with an inside track.
The administrative and oversite costs associated with Cap and Trade performance verification seems to be a negative. But all this seems to be overlooked by the spinmeisters and poorly informed writing heads.

]]> By: cb http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/26/cap-and-trade-works-eu-replaces-coal-power-with-wind-energy/#comment-53748 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 01:57:28 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=18984#comment-53748 Why is this not publicized more widely?

]]> By: Las Vegas Remodeling http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/26/cap-and-trade-works-eu-replaces-coal-power-with-wind-energy/#comment-53057 Sat, 27 Nov 2010 23:03:07 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=18984#comment-53057 I believe progress is being made, I really don’t care what the oil industry thinks. They are always going to have a derogatory statement, renewable energy is cutting into their market share. We have to stay on this course of weaning ourselves off of oil and gas. We are going to see a more rapid decline of our planet if we don’t.

]]> By: Brian http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/26/cap-and-trade-works-eu-replaces-coal-power-with-wind-energy/#comment-52946 Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:17:35 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=18984#comment-52946 This is quite literally a breath of fresh air! Unfortunately here in the states everyone wants a magic bullet solution, a single technology to solve the problem of fossil fuels and that is just unrealistic.
Once you combine that with combating the vast amount of misinformation that is constantly foisted upon the average tv viewer, suddenly you have a huge problem. People value their view of the ocean more than clean energy (Mass. Offshore windmills) or they complain about the aesthetics of the mountain range being mildly affected (VT and Grandpa’s Ridge windmill initiative) and neither of these counter groups realize that if we do not work to solve this fossil fuelish path we are on, that ocean, those mountains, won’t mean anything as they will be ruined.

]]> By: Susan Kraemer http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/26/cap-and-trade-works-eu-replaces-coal-power-with-wind-energy/#comment-52905 Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:15:16 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=18984#comment-52905 Heh.

]]> By: Susan Kraemer http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/26/cap-and-trade-works-eu-replaces-coal-power-with-wind-energy/#comment-52900 Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:04:12 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=18984#comment-52900 Well, no – don’t outsource. Do what Europe does. Innovate. That is what we cover here, and there are numerous solutions to fossil-based industries.

Combined heat and power reduces carbon emissions. Finland now gets a third of its electricity from waste energy produced with CH&P from papermills, another fossil energy intensive industry like the ones you cite.
http://cleantechnica.com/2010/06/29/why-finnish-paper-mills-became-electric-utilities/

Also, Solar CSP can make enough heat for these industries. Read the post the other day on Gypsum production
http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/25/making-sheet-rock-without-fossil-fuels/

]]> By: Gregory Norminton http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/26/cap-and-trade-works-eu-replaces-coal-power-with-wind-energy/#comment-52888 Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:11:50 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=18984#comment-52888 Yeah, but that’s just facts. Who needs facts when they have Rush Limbaugh’s opinions?

]]> By: harrywr2 http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/26/cap-and-trade-works-eu-replaces-coal-power-with-wind-energy/#comment-52880 Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:51:36 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=18984#comment-52880 It’s easy to cut carbon emissions. Just offshore your aluminum, steel and cement industries. Of course if everyone did that we would return rather rapidly to the stone age.

]]> By: sola http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/26/cap-and-trade-works-eu-replaces-coal-power-with-wind-energy/#comment-52871 Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:23:21 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=18984#comment-52871 The biggest factor in this transformation is that energy production becomes really sustainable, much less vulnerable and much more distributed.

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