2030 Blueprint Study Addresses Climate Change

摘要

A study released by Santa Fe, NM-based Architecture 2030 - the 2030 Blueprint study - shows that an investment of $21.6 billion toward building energy efficiency would replace 22.3 conventional coal-fired plants, reduce CO_2 emissions by 86.7 million metric tons, save 204 billion cubic feet of natural gas and 10.7 million barrels of oil, save consumers $8.46 billion in energy bills, and create 216,000 new jobs. The 2030 Blueprint study gives a comparative analysis of three approaches to addressing climate change - building energy efficiency, "clean" coal (with carbon capture and sequestration), and nuclear power-while laying a new road-map for solving the global warming and U.S. economic crises.