A Call to Action: Use energy twice to profitably avert climate change Changing the way the world makes power Thomas R. Casten, Chairman Recycled Energy Development, LLC IDEA 100 th Anniversary June 29, 2009 RED | the new green www.recycled-energy.com
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A Call to Action:Use energy twice to
profitably avert climate change
Changing the way the world makes power
Thomas R. Casten,Chairman
Recycled Energy Development, LLC
IDEA 100th Anniversary
June 29, 2009
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The Energy/Carbon StoryThe Energy/Carbon StoryThe Energy/Carbon StoryThe Energy/Carbon Story
The Changing RulesThe Changing Rules
The Generation StoryThe Generation Story
ConclusionsConclusions
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The history of accessto energy services
• Our standard of living depends on access to energy services:
• Heat, power, mechanical energy
• Until recently, homo sapiens depended only on metabolic energy:
100,000 years ago: Fire tamed
10,000 years ago: Animals domesticated
5,000 years ago: Power from wind
2,000 years ago: Power from water
• Recent use of ‘Ancient Sunlight’ – fossil fuel:
1760:First significant use of coal
1859: Oil discovered
1885:Natural gas first used
1909: IDEA formed to distribute thermal energy
• Access to energy services allowed population to explodeRED | the new green - 3 -
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World population hasgrown dramatically
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1999
1987
1975
1925
1810
1957
3 millionca. 1760:Watt’s steam engineallows coal to be used for power
A.D.B.C.
Source: various authors cited by the U.S. Bureau of Census
IDEA Formed
Source: Arulf Grubler (1998), BP Statistical Review of World Energy (2008), US Bureau of Census (2008)
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Increases in world population andenergy consumption 1850-2007
• Growing species extinction, caused by human actions
• 1,000 times the background rate
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The Generation StoryThe Generation StoryThe Generation StoryThe Generation Story
The Changing RulesThe Changing Rules
ConclusionsConclusions
The Energy/Carbon StoryThe Energy/Carbon Story
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Electricity generation is thelargest source of CO2 emissions
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Source: RED calculations based on data from Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2007; State Energy Data Report; and Annual Energy Review.
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
CO2 Emissions by theU.S. Electric Power Sector
% of US CO2 Emissions
Inefficient heat and poweremits two-thirds of CO2
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12%
14%
27%
42%
0% 25% 50%
Other Transport
Cars
Thermal
Electricity• Heat & power account for 69% of fossil fuel emissions
• Efficiency has been flatfor 50 years
Emissions of U.S. CO2 from Fossil Fuels
Source: RED calculations based on data from the U.S. Energy Information Agencyand the U.S. Department of Transport
0%
50%
100%
1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000
US electricity generation is inefficient
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Source: U.S. Energy Information Agency
Inefficientgeneration
U.S. Delivered Electric Efficiency
• Wastes energy
• Inflates costs
• Increases pollution
Homer Simpson’s power plant Springfield, ?
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Two-thirds ofthe energy generated is released
into the atmosphere
Electricity generation plant Craig, CO
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Generation efficiency –the elephant in the room
“I’m right there in the roomand no one even acknowledges me”