Though you might pay more for green power, it can help your household as a whole cut carbon emissions drastically (the average U.S. household produces 9 tons of carbon a year).
The facility itself consists of two capture plants fitted with more than 4, 000 instruments to monitor what is going on, and with a total capacity of 80, 000 tonnes of carbon a year.
All Very Serious People knew that you could not reduce carbon emissions or drive clean energy innovation without a price on carbon, either through a carbon tax or a cap and trade system.
Russia was allowed to argue that its vast forests soaked up at least 17 million metric tonnes of carbon a year, thus sparing it the need to reduce its use of coal and oil by that amount.
Based on these findings, Dr Jiao and his colleagues propose that AAPB, and possibly other, similar microbes, have a predominant role in pumping carbon into a pool of compounds that cannot be turned back into carbon dioxide by living creatures, thereby building up a large reservoir that keeps carbon out of the atmosphere.
Looming above all: the push to price and manage carbon dioxide emissions via a carbon tax or a cap and trade regime.
And part of the answer to that question will depend upon pricing carbon, whether through a carbon tax or a cap and trade program.
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Although most economists argue that a carbon tax would be the most efficient solution, Sir Nicholas is neutral between a carbon tax and the other ways of raising the cost of emitting carbon by regulation or a cap-and-trade system.
Until a carbon price is established, either in the form of a carbon tax or revealed by the markets through a cap-and-trade mechanism, many companies will put big capital spending plans on hold.
Instead, I opted for a carbon tax and a bank tax because I think we should put a price on carbon and on the risks bankers have been taking with our money.
In that regard, you're aware that our Parliament has passed a new bill, pricing carbon -- a carbon tax, if you like.
One such emerging tool is the voluntary carbon emission market, a place where corporations voluntarily buy emission credits to offset their own carbon emissions without regard for any requirement like a carbon cap.
The new Corvette, for instance, incorporates lightweight materials to a degree not seen on even the most exotic cars, including a carbon fiber hood and removable roof panel, and a carbon-reinforced aluminum frame.
We need a long-term cap on carbon output and a market price for carbon, he said, because it will send a long-term signal to energy companies, removing the uncertainty around capital investment plans.
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The renewed clamoring to rush through Congress a European-style climate bill before the international climate talks convene in Denmark in December has at least temporarily shoved aside debate over whether alternative carbon control strategies, such as a carbon tax, might be a better choice both economically and environmentally.
Ms. KING: But to those that do understand that it is a problem, I would say this bill would preserve a large carbon sink, a place that would protect and sequester carbon which, by the way, turns into money for the taxpayers because we can sell that - those points, I think, if we need to.
In contrast, a carbon tax is a predictable cost to producers and treats companies and consumers evenly.
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The climate committee must decide by late 2011 the best way to put a price on greenhouse-gas emissions: an ETS, a carbon tax or a hybrid of both.
Last week the Senate passed a substantial but flawed energy bill, which imposed tougher fuel-efficiency standards on cars but failed to consider a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system.
That could be a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system, such as Europe's Emissions-Trading Scheme, which limits how much producers can emit, and lets them buy and sell emissions credits.
Despite antique appearances, the car is actually built from a carbon-fibre monocoque produced in an aerospace-grade autoclave (in this case, one that Boeing uses), with a body sculpted from a carbon- Nomex sandwich.
This week there was talk that Grover Norquist mooted the concept of swapping a carbon tax for a reduced income tax, a position he summarily reversed the following day under pressure from the energy lobby.
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Under Rex Tillerson, the current boss, policy changed to support for a carbon tax, a proposal so much more radical than the cap-and-trade emissions bills on offer that critics suspected it of being an intentional distraction.
The decision to go with a carbon tax or a market based cap and trade system or other alternatives is best left to the particular jurisdiction after discussions between that government and affected industries have taken place.
One of the experiments involves erecting three-metre high tents over a section of the crops, allowing the team to expose the plants to a "carbon tracer" - a form of carbon that is different from atmospheric carbon so it is possible for the researchers to track its movements from the surrounding air, through the plants and into the soil.
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Mr Brown called for a long-term framework of a worldwide carbon market that would lead to "a low-carbon global economy".
By 2010 this amounted to a difference of 1.4 billion tonnes of carbon pollution a year, and rising.
In case you skipped or had trouble with the video, one possible scenario for a carbon tax would be a revenue neutral fee and rebate program.
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But a carbon tax could be a way of avoiding a steep rise in income tax and save cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and social security, the prospect that haunts Washington as the 2 January deadline for a budget deal looms.
The new butanol is a four-carbon alcohol, whereas ethanol is a two-carbon alcohol.
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