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Hansen et al: We must phase-out coal emissions by 2030 and stabilize at or below 350 ppm
In a few days, James Hansen and several other leading climate scientists will release a major new study, "Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?" in the Open Atmospheric Sciences Journal. You can read a first draft of the study and my commentary on it here: Hansen (et al) must read: Get back to 350 ppm or risk an ice-free planet. Hansen has just put online a draft press release and FAQ (reprinted below).
First, though, Hansen responds to those of us who were critical of his earlier statement that "neither presidential candidate 'gets it', based on their enthusiasm for 'clean coal' and 'carbon cap and trade.' No Naderite he, says, the NASA scientist: "The vice presidential choices should jolt even the most jaded and somnolent into getting their fannies to the polls, if they retain any concern about life and the planet left for our children."
Back to the draft press release, which warns:
Humanity must find a path to reduced atmospheric carbon dioxide, to less than the amount in the air today, if climate disasters are to be averted, according to a study to be published in Open Atmospheric Science Journal by a group of ten scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom and France. They argue that such a path is feasible, but requires a prompt moratorium on new coal use that does not capture CO2 and phase-out of existing coal emissions by 2030….
… if coal emissions were thus phased out between 2010 and 2030, and if emissions from unconventional fossil fuels such as tar shale were minimized, atmospheric CO2 would peak at 400-425 ppm and then slowly decline.
The authors conclude that "humanity today, collectively, must face the uncomfortable fact that industrial civilization itself has become the principal driver of global climate…. [T]he most difficult task, phase-out over the next 20-25 years of coal use that does not capture CO2, is Herculean, yet feasible when compared with the efforts that went into World War II. The stakes, for all life on the planet, surpass those of any previous crisis. The greatest danger is continued ignorance and denial, which could make tragic consequences unavoidable."
I reiterate that if you agree with Hansen's analysis of climate science and its implications for concentrations and emissions, then a CO2 price — whether imposed by a tax as Hansen recommends or achieved through a cap-and-trade — is simply beside the point.
It is politically implausible that the nation and the world could adopt a high enough carbon price that gets us off of coal fast enough: Hansen says the rich countries need to be coal-emission-free by 2020 (!), which is long before coal with carbon capture and storage (aka clean coal) will be practical and scalable (see "Is coal with carbon capture and storage a core climate solution?" That means shutting down every coal plant in the industrialized world in a decade. It must simply be labeled "impossible" that even a politically implausible price for carbon would get you the carbon-free electricity and grid infrastructure needed to replace all those coal plants in a decade.
In short, if you believe Hansen is right, then don't waste time with a carbon price. We need to go straight to the government-led WWII-style effort for the whole planet that is sustained for decades, as I discuss in the Conclusion to my book (online here, reg. req'd). This is obviously no more politically plausible today than a price for carbon of several hundred dollars. But unlike the carbon price approach, at least the WWII-style approach would work.
Here are more excerpts from the draft PR:
"There is a bright side to this conclusion" according to James Hansen, the lead author on the study, "by following a path that leads to a lower CO2 amount we can alleviate a number of problems that had begun to seem inevitable, such as increased storm intensities, expanded desertification, loss of coral reefs, and loss of mountain glaciers that supply fresh water to hundreds of millions of people."
Atmospheric carbon dioxide is already 385 parts per million (ppm) and it is increasing by about 2 ppm each year as a result of the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas), with a smaller contribution from burning of forests. The authors use evidence of how the Earth responded to past changes of CO2 and on-going climate changes to show that atmospheric CO2 has already entered the dangerous zone.
The authors suggest that global policies should have an initial target for atmospheric CO2 of 350 ppm. They note that the optimum CO2 level for maintaining a planet similar to that on which civilization developed is likely to be less than 350 ppm, but a 350 ppm target already reveals that dramatic policy changes are needed urgently. By the time such fundamental changes are achieved, knowledge will exist to help fine-tune the target CO2….
The authors discredit the notion of 'geo-engineering' solutions, noting that with present cost estimates the price of artificially removing 50 ppm of CO2 from the air would be about $20 trillion. They suggest instead that "improved agricultural and forestry practices offer a more natural way to draw down CO2." They suggest that reforestation of degraded land and improved agricultural practices that retain soil carbon could draw down atmospheric CO2 by as much as 50 ppm. Additional significant CO2 reduction could be achieved by using carbon-negative biofuels to replace liquid fossil fuels and phasing out emissions from natural gas-fired power plants, according to the authors. They find that a combination of these approaches could bring CO2 back to 350 ppm well before the end of the century.
The conclusion that humanity must aim for a CO2 amount less than the current amount is a dramatic change from most previous studies, which suggested that the dangerous level of CO2 was likely to be 450 ppm or higher. The change is caused by realization that 'slow' feedback processes, such as ice melt and release of greenhouse gases by the soil and ocean in a warming climate, can occur on the time scale of decades and centuries. This realization stems from both improving data on the Earth's climate history and ongoing observations of change, especially in the polar regions.
Strong stuff. I will post a link to the study and the PR when they are final.
I would also recommend reading the draft FAQ, which covers topics such as:
- Less than 350 ppm
- China and India
- Coal and R&D program for nuclear power
- Greenwash
- Inter-generational inequity and injustice
- Protests against government inactions
33 Responses to Hansen et al: We must phase-out coal emissions by 2030 and stabilize at or below 350 ppm
I'd love to see some information from you on a couple of things Hansen raises.
First, what would it take to actually implement the ag and forestry practices that could lower atmospheric Co2 by 50PPM?
Second, when Hansen talks about geo-engineering that would cost 20 trillion to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere, are these proven technologies? Do these technologies demand us sequestering CO2 through pumping it into the ground in some way? Does his 20T figure include cost savings that would develop as we got better at doing whatever these technologies are?
Twenty Trillion doesn't sound insane or insurmountable to me. Consider that the US should be on the hook for about 25% of that figure, that's 5 Trillion. That's maybe only twice the cost of the war in Iraq, and at least we'd have something to show for it.
Honestly, I think you (Joe) and Hansen are both right. We desperately need to get to 350ppm, but we really don't have the political will to do so. It seems to be a fundamental component of human nature that we ignore a pending problem at a time when the solution is cheap, and instead wait until it's become a disaster with enormous costs.
I'm working hard to reduce my personal carbon footprint, to show others what I'm doing, and to elect a government that will take appropriate action. But in the end, it seems inevitable that our efforts will not be enough, and deliberate geo-engineering will be required. Fortunately, I think our current slow pace of action may give us enough time to plan out our deliberate geo-engineering future in order to reverse the effect of our accidental geo-engineering past.
I can't see any of the things Hansen has suggested as happening. They just ain't gonna happen. The more strident he becomes the more readily he will be ignored. The louder he becomes and the more 'demands' he makes (rightly so or not) the more he will be marginalized and ignored.
This could end up being the world's biggest "I told ya so."
Dill Weed
I would agree with the intent of the Hansen goal, but would it not be just as good if we reduced CO2 by using a lot less energy. To propose mandating a solution without much thought about the technical possibilities is not a good way to look out for the future generations.
For example, if we cut the energy needed for personal transportation by 80% to 90% and produced three times as much electricity per btu of heat from fuel, wouldn't we get just as good a result?
These solutions also require public adjustments, but they could come at a low, if not negative, net cost to the public. The Hansen et al. approach would have a price tag in the trillions. Boone Pickens would like to pick up some of the change in this deal! And yes, his credibility as a spreader of truth is highly suspect.
I submit that it would be easier to get the public to pay for the efficiency based solution.
High efficiency cars and cogeneration of electricity can get the job done without the need for speculating on a geo-engineering future.
When simple and real solutions are at hand, why chase a science fiction solution?
the FAQ says one and only one reader thought the "gets it" was a declaration of equivalence. was that you, joe? or is there actually another person out there who can't see that obama's got some scary political commitments on energy.
If anyone wants to help spread the word, please come help us at 350.org. I'm not arguing it's going to be any easier than Joe implies, but at the very least the world deserves to know exactly what the red lines are. We've got paid and volunteer organizers on the ground in 6 continents, and will be fighting hard in the run-up to Copenhagen to get the word out that the steps our leaders are currently contemplating are akin to assembling a chair-rearranging subcommittee in the cocktail lounge of the Titanic. What we lack is political will, and political will comes from movements. Please join in.
Jared — One choice is to put biochar into the ground. If used as a soil conditioner, about half of the carbon re-enters the active carbon cycle within a few decades; the remainder seems to persist for centuries to millennia.
However, deep burial produces an artifical coal seam. As such it should persist for tens of millions of years; effectively 'forever'.
I've costed out the latter assuming the biomass is free. One has to cut and collect it for pyrolysis. The resulting biochar (charcoal if wood is used) has to be transported to the burial site and then buried. If done in developed countries, all this runs about $140 per tonne of carbon.
Now 50 ppm requires burial of 250 GtC. Assuming my costing is correct, that requires $35 trillion.
Another choice is removing CO2 via mineralization of olivene. While the initial costs might be equally high, the price could well drop to half that figure.
Neither technique invovles any changes to agriculture or forestry practices except that invovled in growing enough biomass to make biochar. The advantage of biochar as a soil amendment is that farmers are likely to want to take up this practice for the advantages it brings. Nobody yet knows, but it probably would help forests as well. For both, it should not be necessary to pay the farmers and foresters to add biochar to topsoil; they'll do it out of economic gain. But since about half escapes, twice as much would be required for the 50 ppm desired.
Replace all coal by 2030?
Eminently doable with thorium and liquid-fluoride reactor technology.
Hansen is right, even if his solution is politically implausible. I prefer that to pretending we can solve the problem by switching to EVs and so on.
Joe – you should add "climate bluffer" to your list (denier, delayer, inactivist). A "bluffer" is one who offers solutions which aren't really solutions but makes everyone feel secure in the knowledge that climate change is being "tackled" and that they are "doing their bit for the planet".
Kirk Sorensen — Go for it!
I find it difficult to understand why you describe carbon pricing and a WW2 style effort as alternative policies. A combination of both is much more likely to be effective at reducing emissions than one of them alone would be. They are not mutually exclusive.
One reason that carbon pricing is necessary is that it facilitates decision making. Why would I invest in technology R&D, explore for geothermal energy resources, or invest in a company trying to do these things if there is no price incentive to do so? It will be very difficult for firms to raise the capital required to reduce our emissions without the certainty that is provided by a carbon price.
Both approaches will require strong reporting and verification requirements for greenhouse gas emissions. This should be one of the first tasks of the next US government. Once reporting and verification of emissions has been introduced, it will be relatively simple to introduce carbon pricing. Carbon pricing would make a WW2 style effort much more efficient, and a WW2 style effort could address market failures and make carbon pricing more efficient at reducing emissions.
Some proponents of carbon pricing state that it will make other climate change mitigation policies redundant because carbon pricing will minimize the cost of reducing emissions. I don't buy into these arguments — these arguments are based on a lack of understanding about the scale of the market failures involved. When it comes to climate change mitigation, market failures are not the exception, they are the norm.
On a slightly different matter, Hansen's comments on Australia are very interesting. It will be interesting to see what sort of reaction there will be.
It does make it easier on the mind to just say get rid of coal.
I do think that it's easy to make that recommendation in his paper because that's the only option he shows in his graph. Add into the graph the costs of the coal mitigation and compare that to the costs of making the energy/carbon/money savings with oil and natural gas.
Isn't the middle or the last million tons of coal that isn't going to be burned for energy going to cost a lot more to find energy substitutes for than the substitutes for the first million tons of oil and natural gas? You're leaving alot of cost savings and energy efficiency savings on the table if you only go after coal.
The United States GDP is about 14 trillion and the world GDP is about 60 trillion. If we assumed we didn't have any economic growth (hey, might happen the way things are going,) 20 years by 60 trillion is 1200 trillion dollars GDP over the next 20 years. 20 trillion for geo-engineering of 1200 trillion is about 1.6 percent of world GDP. That's about the same as some estimates of carbon mitigation anyway. Half carbon mitigation and half geo-engineering?
Things are looking bleak! 2008 is the tipping year! When will the panic start?
You don't cure a heroin addict by adding 5% tax to his fix. Coal burning will only stop as a result of some really drastic action i.e. banning coal.
The problem with just tilting the playing field slightly towards renewables is that it won't reduce fossil fuel consumption – it will just increase renewables! If the world still ends up working through the entire global reserve of coal, oil and gas anyway then we have achieved nothing (at least from a climate change perspective).
Ronald – I only half believe GDP-based arguments. Absent fossil fuels I am not sure whether there would be a GDP at all. Money seems to be a financial incarnation of energy.
To me, the tipping point was when the methane release began in Siberia.
When will the panic start?
I don't think there will be a panic in the historical sense of the word.
This is not a barbarians at the gate sort of thing.
This is a slow disaster.
Slow, but relentless.
I suppose a collapse of the Ross Ice Shelf will cause a panic but it won't be in the general public.
While I would rather not burn coal at all (dirty stuff), still we might choose to do so, but remove (permanently) the fossil carbon burned.
Assume that mineralization of carbon dioxide via olivine can be done for $70 per tonne of carbon on New Calidonia or India or Brazil. Bituminous coal from Central Appalachia is about 60% carbon and currently costs $130–140 per short ton at the 'minehead'; I'll assume that transportation is free. :-)
So that is 1.1×140/.6 = $257 per tonne of fossil carbon burned. Taxing an additional $70 per tonne brings the price to $277 per tonne of carbon, a 7.8% increase in the minehead cost.
Couple of points:
1) Even if geo-engineering were cheap, it would still be stupid. For any of the ideas involving "shades or screens" to lower solar incidence, you still get a grossly acidified ocean, which would end life as we know it. For other techniques — such as bioabsorption on a planetary scale, we will have to dea with the law of unintended consequences — We simply don't know what will happen or how bad it would be.
2) We need to impose limits, not prices. There isn't a politician alive who would vote for a carbon price steep enough to make a difference, and even then, some idiots would still burn coal if they were allowed to. It must be banned, with a schedule to get it out of the market by 2025. Period.
3) We're toast. None of this will happen.
The politics gets so much easier if we just go after reducing the burning of coal. If we want to reduce the use of natural gas, oil and coal we would have the entire fossil fuel industry trying to stop any efforts at stopping greenhouse gases that cause global warming.
If we only go after stopping coal energy, we can tell those in the natural gas and oil industries, here's the deal, help us or don't stop us from stopping the burning of coal and natural gas and oil will get a pass. Otherwise, whatever political power there is to reduce greenhouse gase will have to continue to go after reducing all fossil fuel use, whatever it is.
Sometimes we just have to compromise.
An example was the compromises made in 1988 and 1990 concerning wood stoves. Some people wanted very high (and thus very low particle emissions) from woodstoves, but it would have taken a long time to get it implemented. Others suggested that we could put into higher allowable emissions, but if we passed the laws right away it would stop the very worse of the woodstoves.
Eventually woodstoves got better, some much better that the minimum requirements. But it was getting rid of the worst polluting wood stoves that cleaned up the most.
Maybe we can't get rid of natural gas, oil and coal because there is to much political power in all three. But if we concentrate on the worst of them, it might just have a chance of working.
john & Ronald — Ok, put a 30% fossil carbon tax on coal, 'cause it is so very dirty. Put smaller amounts on fossil oil and natural gas. Anyway, put enough so that about $70–140 is collected per tonne of fossil carbon. Somewhere around that figure is enough for the completely safe removel of carbon dioxide via olivine mineralization.
When there is no carbon price, emissions-intensive industries essentially receive a huge subsidy because they do not have to pay for the damage that they are doing to the environment and to future generations. They essentially get free garbage disposal. If you were to undertake a WW2-style effort to reduce greenhouse emissions, it would be insane to continue to subsidize emissions-intensive industries at the same time. A CO2 price is not beside the point at all. Emissions pricing may not be a panacea, but it should be a no-brainer.
High emissions prices (e.g. over $100/t) may be politically difficult now (as is a WW2-style effort), but would not be so difficult over the medium term, if a significant portion is returned to households.
This is all about the politics.
It's not about what makes the most sense.
It's not about what makes the most economic sense.
It's not about what makes the most engineering sense.
It's not about what makes the most greenhouse gas and global warming sense.
It's about what can be done. Politics is the art of the possible.
People have made great compromises before. An example is the start of the United States. We had people arguing for freedom from England at the same time they owned slaves. We had arguments for the right to vote at the same time women didn't have that right. The Electoral College is a compromise of those who wanted the popular vote to elect a President and the states to elect a President. None of those compromises were what we would call good, but they had to move on and do what they could. We also have to do what we can.
I am all for a Cap and Tax trade. I think we could elimimate Property taxes (2.6 percent of GNP) and Sales taxes (3.2 percent of GNP) and have a carbon tax from that (2.6 and 3.2 for a 5.8 total) I think there should be an agreement around the world of all governments that if a country has taxes at all, the first taxes are not property or sales taxes, but consumption greenhouse gas taxes and that those taxes are substitute for other consumption taxes. But is that going to happen.
This website has argued that you would need a very high dollars/ ton of carbon to put on a 2.50 dollar tax on a gallon of gasoline. But if we had a 2.50 tax on gasoline, that would bring in as much money as all property taxes does now in the United States. (14 trillion dollar economy, 142 billion gallons of gasoling sold a year, Property taxes 2.6 percent of GNP) We pay 2.00 for gasoline now in this state for gasoline. Ask people if they would be willing to pay 4.50 a gallon for gasoline intrade for evergybodies; theirs, their neighbors, their employer and for every store and restaurant they buy stuff from would pay no property taxes at all. At least one would have to hesitate and think about it.
Carbon taxes may make sense. But we need political compromise.
I'm a geologist by training — although it's been many decades since I actually practiced in geology. So help me understand — what exactly is olivine mineralization and how could it be practiced on a scale capable of handling a by-product (presumably olivine) of hundreds of giga-tons per year, and are there any ecological consequences?
You're right — externalities should be priced. Having said that, it's a slow process and the market has to learn — or internalize — the new signals before it translates to action. So you have the political battle to price carbon at an appropriate level to stimulate that learning, then you have the time it takes for the market to internalize the signal — I would wager that's at least several decades. There is this false presumption that price signals operate like an on-off switch. They don't.
A ban, on the other hand, is a ban. It starts when it starts.
You're arguing "oughts" and "shoulds" — here's the deal — once you have a ban, you don't need the price signals. They become redundant. If you want to charge them anyway, go ahead. But by themselves, they won't get the job done.
If you are enamored with free-market solutions, pricing carbon — either through a cap and trade or a tax — is an elegant solution. But not a fast one, nor an ironclad one. Some people and corporations will be idiots (Hummers are still selling, after all) and some people will figure out how to game the system (see offsets, for example).
Besides, we foreclosed on the free-market option by delaying action. Remember, market solutions are a means to and end, not an end. They are designed to get us to tenable carbon emissions in time to avoid catastrophic warming. But they cannot achieve that end any more. it's too late.
the more we delay, the more draconian any action — or any consequence of inaction — will be.
I basically agree with you that a cap and trade system for the US does not make much sense at this point as we are in 2008 and the earliest start would be in 2010. A rocket starting cap and trade system is likely to find little acceptability and be to weak to lobbying efforts from emitters.
A carbon price over $70 does not make a lot of sense for the power sector as it removes the economic viability of coal power plants and should effectively phase them out and have them replaced by other technologies. However, there would still be companies trying to plan new coal power plants under the assumption that they will be able to stop cap and trade efforts through lobbying. I have observed this in Germany where companies assume no or little climate regime past 2020 for their planning !!!
I truly think here that we have to proceed like Joe said with a strong regulatory approach. I propose therefore:
– to ban the construction of new coal power plants.
– to cap the quantity of coal, coke and petcoke produced and imported in developed countries. Ultimately, this cap should fall to 10% the present value by 2020 (2030 for developing countries)
– to impose a similar cap to fossil fuel oil with 5% the present amount by 2025 (2035 for developing countries).
Basically a shortage in the supply should have the same effect with the exception that it is easier to monitor and verify.
What is extremely important is to show to the business world what the path is going to be and be strong enough to make them understand that resisting is useless.
Perhaps resisting climate efforts should be highly penalized (criminalized?) for large companies and groups of interest, just like plots of assassinations. Otherwise, you will never get rid of this morbid planning.
Off course I understand the economic implications such a course of actions would have. In turn, it could only be implemented under specific curcumstances which fall under the case of an "extreme hardship" under the WTO rules.
I would by the way really like to read about the conclusion for China and India as I am very interested about what will happen with the massive build up in their heavy industry production capacity (steel, cement, glass, etc.).
I want btw to mention that we do not have yet any magic solution to produce low CO2 primary steel or cement. We need therefore some CCS for these industries, otherwise we might find little public acceptance as infrastructures made from these materials basically fuel the economic growth of most developing countries.
I also firmly believe in very strong energy efficiency standards which will be very cost effective under a strong carbon constraint.
I basically also agree about your visions about the NACR (Net Atmospheric Carbon Removal). Forestry is a great way, however there CCS+biomass can also be used as a sub-optimal solution for the transition.
Perhaps as John above said, "(3) we're toast."
When the cost of banning coal world wide sinks in, public patience will end. The search for solutions needs to recognize that as reality.
I tend to think that people talking about geo-engineering also do not have an intuitive sense of how big the world is.
Imagine also the public disillusionment when the truth about electric cars becomes apparent, especially those who spent a lot of money thinking they were making a big impact. I am referring to the fact that making a car "electric" or "plug-in" while failing to seriously reduce the energy demand of that car, will not do much for global warming. It will help to reduce use of oil, and that gain will be wildly cheered, with many people thinking it also means reduction of CO2.
Joe's emphasis on energy efficiency should be pressed hard. He also is enthusiastic about cogeneration of electricity. These measures seem more palatable to the general public since there are ways to do such things without significant impact on people's life style. We do not need to chase science fiction solutions. There is plenty of room for creativity in more mundane kinds of engineering.
I wouldn't pick 350 ppm [CO2] because we had an abrupt climate change back when it was 342 ppm in 1983. Global drought land percent went from the 1950-1982 baseline of 14% up to fluctuating around 24%. This was likely triggered by the big 1982 El Nino. After the 1997-8 big El Nino, the drought percent popped up to about 34% before coming back down into the high 20s in 2005. [See Das, Trenberth et al update in 2006 NCAR report.]
I think our goal has to be 280 ppm, that anything over that is excess CO2 to be removed by new carbon sinks.
john — Olivine weathers by encorporating carbon dioxide:
I don't see any adverse effects (other than mining gigatonnes of olivine). The goal is to speed up a natural process.
There is a mighty difference between the carbon trading approach that you favor, and the coal moratorium + carbon tax approach that Dr Hansen favors. The latter works, and the former is a joke.
[JR: You don't actually read this blog, do you? I don't "favor" a carbon trading approach.]
What we need is spirited investment in energy technologies that are completely devoid of fossil fuel emissions. (not technologies that "reduce" them per se). We should lay the framework for a global conversion to these new energy technologies.
The approach of Dr Hansen precipitates in such a revolution. Your ideas will not.
These new energy technologies will definitely have to include 4th generation nuclear power – a highly advanced technology that results in reactors with simplified designs and passive safety features, which are 100 times more fuel efficient than the current ones. We can provide reliable energy to all the planet for several hundred years without having to do any further Uranium mining, or without having to worry about nuclear waste (the new reactors will produce no long-term waste).
4th generation nuclear power also happens to be the cheapest, with the best hopes of replacing coal plants. It is by far the power choice with the least environmental impact – due to its minimal land, water and mineral use.
It is no wonder that Dr Hansen considers 4th generation nuclear power in exceedingly good terms, along with solar, wind technologies and energy efficiency measures.
If you get to be the part of DOE in a future Obama administration, please speak for the sake of sanity, and please listen to the voice of scientists – either in nuclear power or in climate change. The book of Tom Blees will make a very good recommendation, please read it.
I have seen you several times speaking for Cap & Trade, which in my opinion, is the same as carbon-trading.
No developing country will impose a voluntary cap. Neither would the oil-rich middle-east, Russia or Venezuela agree to a voluntary moratorium on the use of their oil & gas reserves. Cap & Trade, in the words of Dr. Hansen, is a "a very costly delusion".
If you agree with him, please take Mr. Obama to task for not looking beyond Cap & Trade as the answer to global warming woes. The word I would like to hear is "moratorium on coal".
Now you start mentioning an alternative power plant technology we can finally make the discussion complete.
We don't need nuclear power.
We need to apply fusion energy, from the fusion reactor 8 light minutes away.
Solar power, especially Concentrating Solar Power (CSP), is already mature.
420 MW of CSP plants are already producing electricity in the USA.
Many gigawatts of CSP plants are under construction or in the planning in the USA, Spain, and a few other countries.
Investment costs, now still at the 3-4 $/W level, will reduce fast according to the learning curve effect, as happened with wind energy, see: Report to Congress on Assessment of Potential Impact of Concentrating Solar Power for Electricity
Generation, 2007, see: http://www.nrel.gov/csp/troughnet/pdfs/41233.pdf
We need a WW2 approach: car factories, plane factories, ship yards, etc. should be forced by law to produce solar mirrors, support structures, tanks for thermal energy storage using liquid K/NaNO3, steam turbines, electric generators, High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transforming stations, HVDC cables and lines, and of course also: wind turbines, PV solar panels, Solar boilers, etc.
Such production should be ordered by the government, as weapons in the war against climate change. This would boost the declining economy, it is the New Green Deal.
If the USA starts doing this, Europe will follow soon (with most investments in North Africa as Europe has not sufficient space on its own deserts, and finally also China, India, Brazil.
Al Gore made a call for massive CSP investments in the USA. He also made a call for massive CSP investments in North Africa to supply Europe.
Well, I am pleased that olivine mining, milling and spreading starts to get attention, less than two years after I first published it. It is the natural way in which nature has always balanced input and output of CO2. Now we are putting it to a severe test, by blowing ten times more CO2 in the air than nature does, so we must create more favorable conditions for olivine weathering to reach a new balance. This can be done by mining large volumes of olivine (which is available in huge amounts, as it is the most abundant silicate), grinding the stuff to 100 micron, and spread the powder in a thin layer over large areas in tro;ical countries, where weathering is fastest. These areas can continue to fulfill their natural purposes, maybe even slightly better. My estimeated costs for compensating the anthropogenic input of CO2 is around 200 billion US$ annually, far less than Hansen's estimate. We don't need expensive and energy intensive new technologies, we must just help nature a bit to help us.
For the olivine: The interesting thing about grinding is that it can be achieved directly by a grinder using a fluctuating energy source just as wind… without any grid or expensive electronic for the synchronization to the grid.
The result is a fluctuating buffer of the ground olivine through the year (which does not hurt at all).
Now regarding investing now in nuclear, I demand a new thread !!!
Especially a differenciation between countries with respect to the available potential for low CO2 energy other than nuclear is necessary. But basically, if we talk about nuclear now and look at the learning curve of CSP and PV the conclusion is pretty clear.
Schuiling, Olaf — Thank you for your comment. I am rather puzzeled regarding what is being accomplished for $200 billion per year; removing all the CO2 added to the atmosphere yearly? If so, that is only $20 per tonne of carbon removed, which seems much too little to me.

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Feeling the summer slump? Treat yourself — and help preserve the environment — with a little bling. Bauble queen Melissa Joy Manning is known for her oh-so-gorgeous eco-friendly jewelry, and she's holding a trunk show to show off her new pieces. Bucktown boutique Robin Richman will be playing host to the soirée, where you can check out the sustainable bracelets, necklaces, and earrings — they're all made with recycled metals and organic stones. And, of course, they'll be passing around cocktails — it's a party, after all!
When: Thursday, July 19, from 4 to 7 p.m.
Where: Robin Richman, 2108 North Damen Avenue (between Charleston Street and Dickens avenue); 773-278-6150.
Where: Robin Richman, 2108 North Damen Avenue (between Charleston Street and Dickens avenue); 773-278-6150.
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We recently stayed at this hotel at a Park And Fly rate before leaving on an early flight from Phila Intl Airport. After lots of research, the price seemed right for what we needed. The checkin process went smoothly and the employees were very friendly. Our room was small but clean...kinda what we hoped and expected it to be. We had no noise or comfort issues and the shuttle service was on time both to and from the hotel. Returned after a ten day vacation to a safely lit parking area where we found our car to be right where we had left it. We feel we got exactly what we paid for.
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- The Hampton Inn Philadelphia-International Airport hotel welcomes you to Philadelphia with a free 24-hour airport shuttle and friendly service. Situated off Interstate 95, only .5 miles from Philadelphia International Airport, our Philadelphia Airport hotel offers easy highway access to downtown Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware. Explore the downtown Philadelphia historic district. See the Liberty Bell, tour Independence Hall and the Betsy Ross House, and stroll Elfreth's Alley, the oldest street in the US. Try a famous Philly cheesesteak or enjoy international cuisine offered in Reading Terminal Market. Visit the National Constitution Center to learn about the US Constitution. Spend a day viewing exhibits in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Rodin Museum and the Franklin Institute. The popular statue of Rocky Balboa is also in the museum district. Cheer the Philadelphia Eagles football team at Lincoln Financial Field, two miles from our Philadelphia hotel. Comcast Center, the University of Pennsylvania, and many other corporations and universities are minutes away. Appreciate the location and amenities at our hotel by Philadelphia Airport. Reserve one of our 151 guest rooms featuring king-sized or double beds. For additional space and seating, select a room with a sofa bed. Connect to free high-speed internet access. Get some work done at the desk or set up your laptop on the convenient lap desk. Watch your favorite cable channels on the flat-screen HDTV. Wake up every morning to Hampton's free hot breakfast. ... more less
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Need to pass a Civil service exam as part of getting a job at the state, county or local level?
If the answer is yes, then you should know that many applicants choose to get some practice with the types of questions most likely to be on the civil service exam.
What types of questions are most likely to be on your exam? To answer that question, let's break down and explore some of the most common content used on many civil services exams.
Most civil service exams include questions that deal with such subjects as reading comprehension, math, verbal reasoning, working with codes, charts, graphs, vacabulary and grammar.
While many people have worked with this kind on content before, not too many people have taken tests that format the questions similiar to those found on many civil service exams.
It is precisely that reason (various question formats) why many applicants choose to use a civil service study guide or practice exam.
Getting a civil service sample test allows an applicant to get a "sneak peek" at how the questions will likely be formatted. In addition, it allows an applicant to have the opportunity to work with problems that are similiar to the actual exam they will be required to take.
In addition, a study guide will allow you to test your skills at solving many different questions. And you will have the opportunity to check your answers. As a result, you will be able to detect your strengths and weaknesses/
There really is no better to prepare for any exam. Getting a civil service sample test or study guide may be the key to passing your civil service exam.
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... colours of the trees and the brilliant green of the grass was amazing.
E failed to get any lunch as we discovered that 11:11 is a bank holiday in France and everywhere was closed! So we arrived at the hotel at 5:00 pm and were starving! We checked in and the owner kindly provided us with pate and bread and a glass of red....perfect!
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... duty manager know, and he was fantastic. He told her he'd fix it for her, he took away her suitcase to dry out, and said he'd upgrade her room in the morning. Sure enough when we came home from sightseeing, there was a note on her door telling her that her new room was ready. What a room! It's huge with a kingsize bed and whopping bathroom ... we're very envious! Anyway it was a great place to have a dinner party of cheese, baguette, fresh figs, peaches and chocolate for dessert ...
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... hill on the edge of town and wandered the streets a bit before going back to the hotel. By 8pm most shops have closed and the streets empty out so there is not much to do. I have to say that the bus tour on the way in blew me away. I didn't really know much about Lyon but everything about the city seems so cool. It's not as small of a city as I thought it would be. The streets in the center city were really crowded and upbeat. My original plan to take a nap went right out the ...
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The landmark Saf-T-Liner C2 goes to Bishop Bus Service in Maryland. Thomas Built has another upcoming milestone: its 100th anniversary.
Lois King, a driver for Fauquier County (Va.) Public Schools since 1960, shares her strategy for behavior management and the reason she started shuttling students.
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BOGOTA, Colombia -- Teen wild card Mariana Duque Marino advanced to the quarterfinals in her hometown Copa Colsanitas, upsetting fifth-seeded Yvonne Meusburger 6-1, 6-2 on Wednesday in the clay-court tournament.
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Airdre Mattner says she was drugged, abducted & raped in Seoul last September, but after dealing with South Korean hospital staff & police, including a recent Facebook post by police that revealed private information regarding her case, she says she's been devastated her even further. Korea FM spoke with Mattner & the Korea Herald reporter that's been covering her story to learn more about how both foreign & Korean victims are treated by police & other authorities while seeking justice. Find more information on Airdre Mattner's story at http://GoFundMe.com/JusticeForAirdre.
The National Human Rights Commission of Korea says the 2014 arrest of a Nigerian man violated his rights as authorities refused repeated requests to contact his embassy for more than a week.
Maxwell Iruviere says police confused him with another Nigerian & is now seeking compensation for his November 2014 false arrest & imprisonment. Korea FM spoke with Iruviere & Lawyers For A Democratic Society Attorney Yuna Lee about the incident.
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Making investigators' lives a little easier – see May CR TIMES for IRB changes
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In this month's Feature Article, Investigators will welcome the new reduced requirements under the heading, "Equivalent Protections", for minimal risk human research studies which do not have to follow federal regulations. There are also additional important administrative changes which will impact your INSPIR submissions.
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The Stephanie Dining Room will start your day on the perfect epicurean note. The aroma of locally roasted, freshly brewed coffee greets you at the door, followed by the scent of freshly baked breads and pastries… come hungry!
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- Egg entrées – vary weekly
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Dinner at the Inn is a must for both hotel guests and visitors to Cannon Beach. Returning guests often tell us that dinner in the Dining Room is a highlight of their stay. The concept is casually sophisticated with your choice of an elegant prix fixe, five course meal or à la carte selections. Plan to enjoy the entirety of the evening, or choose the part that fits your style. Just know you may never forgive yourselves for passing on the desserts.
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Synthesis and characterization of functional fluorinated telomers
The synthesis and characterizations of fluorinated telomers based on vinylidene fluoride (VDF) by iodine transfer polymerization (ITP) are presented. These telomers were prepared in the presence of ω-iodoperfluorinated functional chain transfer agents, C6F13I or C4F9I. ITPs were initiated by thermal decomposition of bis(4-tert-butylcyclohexyl) peroxydicarbonate (BBCHPDC), in solution (in the presence of acetonitrile). The obtained telomers were characterized by different analyses such as elemental analyses, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, size exclusion chromatography, X-ray diffraction (XRD), and finally by thermal analyses such as differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and thermogravimetric analyses. These technical analyses enabled one to assess their chemical structures, various thermal properties, and their crystalline forms. The assignments of the characteristic signals obtained by 19F NMR spectroscopy enabled one to calculate the average degrees of polymerization (DPn) and percentages of CH2CF2I end group functionalities that depend on the initiator and the fractionation process after reaction. A good control of polymerization was shown by the absence of reversed CH2CF2CF2CH2 (VDF–VDF dyads) and narrow polydispersity indices (<1.2). The XRD and DSC evidenced the influence of the chain length of the telomers on the crystallinity rate (>70%) and indicated two crystalline forms, α and β, that depended on DPn values. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2010
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ART FAIR TOKYO is the largest art fair in Japan and the oldest in Asia, featuring a wide range of art from antiques and crafts to nihonga painting, modern art and contemporary art.
The fair continues to evolve and expand as a platform for the art market, connecting past and present, Asia and the West, and presenting historically inspired artistic contexts.
ART FAIR TOKYO's history goes back to Nippon International Contemporary Art Fair (NICAF), which started in 1992 at Pacifico Yokohama as the first major contemporary art fair in Asia. NICAF struggled in Japan's then inhospitable economic climate and was held for the eighth and final time in 2003.
After NICAF disbanded, many wanted to re-launch the fair and set about analyzing the art market in Japan. They realized that what was needed was an art fair that featured not only contemporary art but also Japan's unique heritage of antiques and crafts, and nihonga painting and modern art. The result was ART FAIR TOKYO.
Launched in 2005, the fair expanded its venue in 2012 and attracted over 50,000 visitors.
In 2015, the fair celebrated its tenth anniversary and also established Art Tokyo Association to organize the fair.
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|Company NameTV TOKYO Corporation
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|Corporate Websitehttp://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/
|EstablishedApril 12th, 1964
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|Corporate Headquarters4-3-12, Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8012 Japan
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|RepresentativeYuichi Takahashi
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|Corporate Websitehttp://art-tokyo.jp/
|EstablishedMay 1st, 2015
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|Telephone Number+81-(0)3-5797-7912
|RepresentativeNaohiko Kishi
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|Main BusinessPlanning and operation of Art events, Art education programs, workshops and symposiums. Supporting artists and galleries.
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|Company NameaTOKYO Co., Ltd.
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Chapter 7: Static Meets Dynamic Adding Caches to Reduce Costs
This chapter excerpt is from "Scalable Internet Architectures", by Theo Schlossnagle, Copyright 2007 by Sams Publishing, ISBN 067232699x. Reprinted with permission, all rights reserved. To review a complete Table of Contents, please visit: www.samspublishing.com/title/067232699x
Chapter 6, "Static Content Serving for Speed and Glory," walked you through building a high-capacity static content serving system using a web caching system as the core technology. That software was responsible for fetching static content from "master" servers and peddling the cached content efficiently and inexpensively.
Why is the problem so different when the content is no longer static? Why can't we use the exact same solution presented in Chapter 6 for dynamic content?
Think of a website as if it were a phone book. A cache is a piece of paper that sits next to your phone book on which you record all the numbers you look up. Sounds like a good idea, right? So much so that you will probably tape that piece of notebook paper to the front of your phone book because you are likely to be interested only in a small subset of the information contained in the book and just as likely to be interested in the same information time and time again. Sounds perfect, right? But the analogy is flawed. Static content on a website is like a phone book, but imagine how difficult it would be to use your "paper cache" if the numbers inside the phone book constantly changed or if numbers differed based on who was looking them up. This is why caching dynamic content poses a more difficult problem than caching static content.
One misconception about caches is due to the misalignment of the computing-centric definition and the English definition of the word cache. In English, a cache is a place to store things often out of sight or in secret, and that definition assumes that it will be there when you return for it. A computer cache is only meant to speed acquisition of data; if it is missing when you look for it, you incur what is called a cache miss. This miss costs you nothing but time.
Caches are everywhere, from the "registers" on your CPU to L1/L2 CPU cache to disk drives to name servers to web systems–and the list goes on. Caches are fundamental engineering tools both inside and outside technology. If they are everywhere, how do you tell if a cache is a web cache? Let's define our web architecture as components directly creating browser-digestible content. This definition eliminates many architectural components that use caches: load balancers, databases, networking equipment, disk drives, and so on. This leaves us with web servers and application servers (glorified web servers).
Web servers are squished right in the middle of our spectacular architectural sandwich. Web caches are caching components of any type that operate directly on web servers or between web servers and their adjacent layers as depicted in Figure 7.1.
Performance Tuning Has Its Limits - Why are we talking about caching and not application performance tuning? This is an important question and deserves attention. Our goal is to demonstrate techniques that can be used as building blocks for scalable systems–and caching is such a technique. Application tuning can only increase performance, and you'll note that the title of this book is not High Performance Internet Architectures. That is not to say that the concepts herein do not perform well, but rather that they focus on scalability and leave high-performance programming, tuning, and tweaking to other books.
Why are scalability and performance different? This is explored in detail in the introduction, but it deserves a few more words. No matter how fast you make your application, you will be limited if it does not scale horizontally.
To put it another way, if your application performance can be increased by 10%, 5%, or perhaps 1% by doubling your hardware, you are in big trouble. Moore's law says that your computer will be twice as fast in 18 months, so if you want to double your capacity, call me in a year and a half. On the other hand, if your application and architecture are designed to be able to leverage 60% or more performance by doubling your architecture, you can scale your system up today. Those percentages are arbitrary, and each architecture will have its own horizontal scaling efficiency. 100% means a perfectly (horizontally) scalable architecture, and 0% means an architecture that scales vertically, so performance tuning is your only option–so aim high.
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Thanks for this good summary.
I have got some problems with cookie caching, because only small informations can be stored in cookies and this form of caching could come together bandwith problems on the client side.
So I think it can be better a combination of cookies and server caching. For example: A user comes and first time I read the cookie, and the next page query I can use serverside cache (created from cookie's datas). I change the cookie only when the user change his preferences.
In this example the process seems so:
1. I check the serverside cache, if found, then ok, else
2. I check the cookie, if found and valid, then ok, else
3. I get the informations from the database and write in cache and in cookie
And 30 minutes after the last page query (same as by sessions) the serverside cache can be invalidated by a timer.
Same problem
My programmer Adam had the same problem. He figured out a compact way to server over 53 million of our blog articles on one little server.
The speed is awesome and googlebot is busy busy.. my blogs
Good Summary
Some of the technics are often used, but this article is a good summary for caching dynamic pages and content.
What an article! Sure beats
What an article! Sure beats the caching concepts discussed in my University's computer architecture class. Can't say that I manage web sites with enough traffic to need such levels of performance refining, but it sure is fun to learn.
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2008 C-USA Outdoor 14th, Discus, 41.86m/137-4
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2010 C-USA Indoor 15th, Shot Put, 12.48m/40-11.5
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Indoor: Placed 10th in shot put (12.48m/40-11.5) at C-USA Indoor and 15th in weight throw (15.14m/49-8.25)... 13th in shot put (12.38m/40-7.5) and 10th in weight throw (15.20m/49-10.5) at Houston Indoor Invitational... 12th in shot put (11.79m/38-8.25) and fifth in weight throw at Leonard Hilton Memorial... Seventh in shot put (12.31m/40-4.75) and fifth in weight throw (14.68m/48-2) at UH All-Comers Meet... 14th in shot put (12.11m/39-8.75) and 12th in weight throw (15.44m/50-8) at Texas A&M Challenge.
Outdoor: Placed second in the hammer throw at the TSU Relays with a mark of 50.15m/164-6... Finished first in hammer throw (50.43m/165-5) and 11th in shot put (12.30m/40-4.25) at Victor Lopez Classic... At UTEP Invitational, placed fourth in hammer throw (49.59m/162-8) and sixth in the shot put (12.22m/40-1.25)... Third in the hammer (47.17m/154-9) and 16th in shot put (11.44m/37-6.5) at Michael Johnson Classic... Placed eighth in shot put (12.60m/41-4.25) and second in hammer (51.13m/167-9) at Duckett/Rice Twilight... At the Texas Invite, placed fourth in the hammer throw (47.41m/155-6)... Third in hammer (49.30m) and sixth in shot put (12.24m) at Rice Field & Track Meet... Placed 10th in shot put (12.73m/41-9.25) and seventh in hammer throw with a school record mark 53.00m/173-11 at C-USA Outdoor.
Indoor: Placed 10th in shot put (12.27m/40-3.25) and sixth in the weight throw with a toss of 15.46m/50-8.75 at the Houston Invitational... Placed 20th in shot put (12.29m) and 14th in weight throw (14.64m/48-0.50) at Texas A&M Invitational... 24th in shot put (11.23m/36-10.25) and ninth in weight throw (14.76m/48-5.25) at Leonard Hilton Memorial... Finished 15th in shot put (12.60m/41-4.25) and 17th in weight throw (15.29m/50-2) at C-USA Indoor... Placed 11th in shot put (11.55m/37-10.75) and 11th in weight throw (13.93m/45-8.5) at UH All-Comers.
Outdoor: Finished 15th in shot put (12.26m/40-2.75) at C-USA Outdoor and 10th in hammer throw with a school record mark of 49.14m/161-3... 17th in shot put (11.68m/38-4), 19th in discus (33.15m/108-9), and fifth in hammer throw (44.89m/147-3) at Victor Lopez Bayou Classic... Placed ninth in shot put (12.33m/40-5.5) and seventh in hammer throw (45.44m/149-1) at Duckett/Rice Twilight.
Indoor: Set new personal bests in both the shot (12.24/40-2) and weight throw (13.25/43-5.75) for the Owls at the C-USA Indoor meet.
Outdoor: Improved her personal bests in the hammer by 12 feet (136-7 to 148-7.5), in the discuss by over three feet (134 to 137-4) and in the shot by nearly three feet (40.0 to 42-9) during her second season. All three marks came at the Victor Lopez Bayou Classic at Rice, as she finished fifth in the shot, sixth in the discus and seventh in the hammer.
Indoor: Set indoor season bests of 11.68/38-4 in the shot put and 12.39/40-7.75 in the 20 lb. weight.
Outdoor: Recorded an outdoor season bests of 11.99/39-4 in the shot put, 40.84/134-0 in the discus, and as Rice's sole competitor in the event, 41.64/136-7 in the hammer.
2006 graduate of Gulf Breeze High School, where she earned 10 varsity letters... 2A state champion as a senior in the shot put for coach Tom Aldridge and the Dolphins... Had a high school best of 40-0... Third at state meet as a junior... Four-time team MVP for field events, qualified for state in the shot three times... District shot champion three times... Also named school's basketball MVP three times and was named to the all-area first team as a senior... Scored more than 1,000 career points for coach Steven McHenry... Also lettered twice in volleyball and was the team's academic award winner... Graduated in the top 10 in her class... Member of the National Honor Society, Key Club, National Spanish Honor Society, National Technology Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, Keyettes and Quill & Scroll.
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According to the report, two factors might explain why companies that report sustainability data consistently achieve higher return on assets (see chart above): investment decisions and operational improvements associated with adopting sustainable practices.
In terms of generating cash flow, companies that reported sustainable data posted consistently higher free cash flow to sales ratios over 1-, 3-, and 5-year periods. Again, operational improvements and adopting best practices along the value chain have likely contributed to their ability to generate higher cash flows.
When compared based on gross margins and return on sales, the companies that reported sustainability data outperformed those that did not. Two explanations:
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2. Consumers have begun placing a premium on goods produced in a sustainable manner
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