Comparison Pollution Solar Wind 
Green Car Congress
MARCH 25, 2020
This puffy line is not just exhaust from the engine, but a change in the clouds that’s caused by small airborne particles of pollution. Pollution from ships creates lines of clouds that can stretch hundreds of miles. The difference helps explain how much industrial pollution influences clouds. NASA Earth Observatory.
Setec Powerr
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Current versions of renewable energy such as solar cells and windmills do far less damage to the environment than oil rigs, fracking, and strip mining, but they do damage the environment. Windmills can harm migrating birds, and solar cells require toxic substances to be manufactured. That is the only comparison that matters.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 30, 2019
A second point of comparison comes from the cost of abating a metric ton of CO 2 in current cap-and-trade markets in the US: it is about $5 in the northeast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and $15 in California’s cap-and-trade system. The analysis also does not assess the impact of RPS policies on criteria pollutants.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
In addition to greenhouse gas emissions, the report also assesses a number of other environmental impact categories, ranging from resource use, including cumulative energy consumption, mineral and metal resource depletion and water scarcity, to airborne pollutant emissions (like particulates and nitrogen oxides), and human- and eco-toxicity.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
One chapter is devoted to international comparisons, allowing users a quick way to see how the nature of energy and economic activities differs from country to country. Whereas the last version of the Databook did not even have data on wind and solar power generation, China is now among the top wind power producers in the world.
Green Car Congress
MAY 10, 2011
Biomass and solar are shown as primary energy due to their multiple uses. As a comparison, 314 Exajoules is more than three times the annual energy supply in the United States in 2005, which is also a similar level of supply on the Continent of Europe according to various government and independent sources. Source: SRREN.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 5, 2019
—down 50% from its peak in 2005—displaced by cheaper natural gas, wind and solar power, as well as savings from energy efficiency. Billed by some as a “bridge fuel” away from more pollutive energy sources, natural gas produces significantly fewer carbon dioxide emissions than oil or coal.
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