Using electricity storage to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

NEMSIM: Finding Ways to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions using Multi-Agent Electricity Modelling

For more than a decade, electricity industries have been undergoing regulatory reform worldwide, with the general aim of improving economic efficiency. In many places, these changes have culminated in the appearance of a wholesale power market. There are various, sometimes contradictory, conclusions about the performance of such restructured electricity markets. In this new context, the operati...

Breeding Dairy Cows to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The dairy industry has made large advances in efficiencies over the past 60 years as a result of changes in breeding, nutrition and management practices [1]. To meet the growing demand for dairy products, which is projected to continue out to the year 2050 [2], milk production per cow has increased over the last thirty years primarily by genetic selection and better nutrition. Genetic selection...

Consumer Incentives to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Personal Automobiles

The focus of this paper is short-term policy options to address greenhouse gas emissions from personal automobiles. Primary policies considered include gasoline taxes, carbon taxes, a carbon cap-andtrade program, cost-shifting initiatives, and a pay-at-thepump auto insurance scheme are examined closely. Pay-at-the-pump auto insurance is recommended on the basis of cost effectiveness, equity, pu...

The Economic Effects of Legislation to Reduce Greenhouse-Gas Emissions

Composting as a Strategy to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Composting animal manure has the potential to reduce emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) from agriculture. Agriculture has been recognized as a major contributor of greenhouse gases, releasing an estimated 81% and 70% of the anthropogenic emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4), respectively. A significant amount of methane is emitted during the storage of liquid manur...