Climate change

1. We are doomed


2. The mechanism of climate change. The model for CO2


3. A metric for Climate Change

Daily Load Curve, suggestion

Level the load on the transmission grid. Every year, require that the elctrical distribution company offer a new ten year tariff that has the goal and the effect of lowering the peak load on the transmission grid by 10%. This headroom will serve to delay the need for any new peaker (gas) plants, or new tranmission lines and encourage occasionally connected micro grids. A markt based solution.

How we doing on Climate Change?

1. We have a graph of concentration of CO2 in the air worldwide
It's the Mona Loa project.
2. We do not have that data, or that graph, for the City or the County.
3. National Fuel Gas does have the data, by zip code!
4. Let's get it.

The Elephant in the climate change story. CCS

1. The ocean exchanges CO2 with the atmosphere
2. As he ocean warms, it gives off more CO2 to the atmosphere.
3. Take CO2 out of the ocean and the ocean will take CO2 out of the air.
4. Getting CO2 out of the ocean is easy to do on a small scale.
Doing it on a relevant scale is another story.