Shine india monthly magazine published this article page no 4 it seems climate change is inevitable and the small economic ideas such as banning coal subsidies bear little fruit as a means of curbing the problem more than ever political will must be demonstrated at first to show to industry and populations that it is even an issue more importantly perhaps the will of the politicians must be met with achievable methods from the technological and scientific community professor socolow is leading the way with what he calls stabilisation wedges on a graph of climate change the space between the trend line and the stability line is known as the stabilisation triangle by dividing these triangles into wedges and assigning realistic goals to each wedge the massive problem is given a usable and effective solution the goals to assign to the wedges range from greater overall efficiencies the decarbonisation of electricity fuel displacement by low carbon electricity methane management and natural carbon sinks by further subdividing each wedge into sub wedges such as decarbonised electricity being subdivided into nuclear power renewable energy natural gas as an alternative to coal and the storage of carbon dioxide – these problems are confounded into what everyone has been looking for a short list of solutions that together will balance the problem it seems the technology for all this exists it is merely in need of refinement for example the management of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels could be dealt with through further carbon sequestration a couple of power plants already employ this particular technique to good effect the carbon dioxide is extracted at the source and is injected into porous rocks deep underground to prevent it escaping into the atmosphere steam reformation is another technique it is in essence a pre-emptive technique that reacts the fuel used with water to yield hydrogen the hydrogen output is burnt to create electricity of all the possibilities of reworking and inventing technologies perhaps the best idea is the oldest idea replanting programmes the idea of photosynthesis to combine carbon dioxide with water and sunlight is a relatively cheap and exponential idea and would be hugely effective shine india monthly magazine telugu buy.
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