Energy Wedgists versus Technology Breakthroughists
Date: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 @ 22:35:15 UTC
Topic: Legal
The future of the world's economy and climate may depend on which side wins
by Ronald Bailey | June 3, 2008/ Reason Magazine
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The energy technology debate among those who are concerned about the dangers of man-made global warming divides into two camps—wedgists and breakthroughists...
Breakthroughists argue that the wedgist approach is a technical and political non-starter. In 2002, a number of leading energy researchers argued in Science that current on-the-shelf technologies cannot supply low-carbon energy at an acceptable cost.
One of the co-authors, MIT engineer Howard Herzog, declared, "To reduce greenhouse gas emissions from our energy systems while maintaining energy prices at comparable levels to today will take revolutionary change as opposed to evolutionary change."
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Full article: http://reason.com/news/show/126806.html
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