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The Game Plan - a solution framework for the climate challenge.

Jose Vaz Pinto on May 7, 2008 | 2280 Views

It worths reading and reacting upon it !

Saul Griffith, Jim McBride et all, give us at Wattzon.org a framework that enables us to think about the challenges posed by our total population energy consumption: how to live in a world where we increasingly understand the resources to be finite ?

Quite interesting how an enormous problem can be depicted with an engineering approach posing some important questions that may help to discover the path to solutions :

  • What temperature do we set climate change at?

  • What CO2 concentration does this imply we need to aim at?

  • How much power can we get from fossil fuels while still meeting this goal?

  • How much power do we need to install and produce from non-carbon technologies?

  • What does this mean for countries, corporations, and individuals?

"Without doubt, the only way to move forward is to know what the target is, know how to measure progress towards that target, and have the data and information to make good personal decisions as well as good global decisions."

Great work !

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