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Book: http://ourchoicethebook.com/site_media/index2.html

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CH1: What Goes Up Must Come Down

Our planet and the immediate danger

The sources of global warming

Solution: All must be reduced!

The solution is easy to describe yet difficult to put in practice

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CH2: Where Our Energy Comes from and Where It Goes

The largest source of global warming is the production of energy from fossil fuels: Coal, Oil, Natural Gas (86.5% of primary energy)

Solution: substitute with low-CO2-energy-source

Oil is the largest source of energy

Oil produces 30% less CO2 that coal per unit/energy

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CH2. Cont.

Making Renewable Energy Affordable: need to develop and build cos-effective renewable-energy systems (from natural sources)

1. While carbon-based energy gets more expensive over time, renewable energy gets cheaper

2. Need to build infrastructure, and the fuel is free! (sun, wind...), no scarcity

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3. World commitment and the advantage of economies of scale (R&D and higher demand)

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CH3: Electricity From The Sun

CH4: Harvesting The Wind

CH5: Soaking Up Geothermal Energy

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CH6: Growing Fuel

Biomass Energy (plant material and animal waste): a source of energy that could reduce CO2 from burning energy.

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CH7: Carbon Capture And Sequestration

CCS: in theory, to capture all of the CO2. In reality?

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CH8: The Nuclear Option

economic and political problems

Safety concerns

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CH9: Forests

CH10: Soil

Ch11: Population

Ch13: The Super Grid

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CH12: Less is More

Efficiency: The Other Renewable Resource

Cost savings and CO2 reductions

Use more efficient motors, change method of production, optimize system of pumps and pipes (modern), cost-reducing technologies

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CH14: Changing The Way We Think

A part of the challenge we face in solving the climate crisis stems from the way we think about it

Why we fail to realize the threat?

Global warming is described as the greatest market failuer in history

Information

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CH15: The True Costs of Carbon

Ch16: Political Obstacles

Ch17: The Power Of Information

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Ch18: Our Choice

• Think about your future

• Future generations

• Political well

• 350.org