Today’s Technology |
Actions that Provide 1 Gigaton/Year of Mitigation |
Major Issues |
Coal Plants |
Replace 1,000 Conventional 500-MW Plants with “Zero-Emission” Power Plants |
Technical, Social, and Economic Viability |
Geologic Sequestration |
Install 3,500 Units at 1 Mt of CO2 Per Year |
Technical, Social, and Economic Viability |
Nuclear |
Build 500 1 GW Plants |
Economics, Safety, and Non-Proliferation |
Efficiency |
Deploy 1 Billion Cars at 50 MPG instead of 20 MPG |
Distributed Opportunity that is Hard to Capture |
Wind |
Install 750 x Current U.S. Wind Generation |
Geographic Limitations, Storage |
Solar PV |
Install 4,500 x Current U.S. Solar Generation |
Geographic Limitations, Storage |