NEI Nuclear Notes

From one look at how the world could work to constrain greenhouse gases over the long-term, look no further then Princeton University’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative . Instead of falling back on the idea of the one silver bullet to reduce GHGs, two professors, Robert Socolow, and Stephen Pacala , have broken the task into seven wedges. Here's a more complete explanation from ScienceMag (subscription required): The Stabilization Triangle We idealize the 50-year emissions reductions as a perfect triangle in Fig. 1B . Stabilization is represented by a "flat" trajectory of fossil fuel emissions at 7 GtC/year, and business as usual is represented by a straight-line "ramp" trajectory rising to 14 GtC/year in 2054. The "stabilization triangle," located between the flat trajectory and BAU, removes exactly one-third of BAU emissions. To keep the focus on technologies that have the potential to produce a material difference by 2054, we divide the stabilization t...