When its environmental and human health toll is factored in, a gallon of gasoline costs us about $3.80 more than the pump price, a new Duke University study finds When its environmental and human health toll is factored in, a gallon of gasoline costs us about $3.80 more than the pump price, a new Duke…
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Gianni Silvestrini The worldwide energy framework is rapidly changing. Different signals highlight the already happening energy transition: an annual renewable energy installed capacity which overcomes the fossil and nuclear one and decreasing prices of clean technologies. Are China and USA the leading actors of this epic change? An article of Gianni Silvestrini, scientific director of…
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The “social cost” of carbon dioxide emissions may not be $37 per ton, as estimated by a recent U.S. government study, but $220 per ton. The economic damage caused by a ton of carbon dioxide emissions – often referred to as the “social cost” of carbon – could actually be six times higher than the…
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