Clean Power from Burning Trash

Impact of trash burning on air quality in Mexico City.

Air pollution experienced by expanding urban areas is responsible for serious health effects and death for millions of people every year. Trash burning is a common disposal method in poor areas, yet it is uncontrolled in many countries, and its contribution to air pollution is unclear due to uncertainties in its emissions. Here we develop a new trash burning emission inventory for Mexico City b...

Is There Profit in Cane Trash? Another Dimension to the Assessment of Trashing versus Burning

The development of a holistic model to assess the long-term economic effects of trashing versus burning provides the foundations for assessing the potential profits from sales of trash to a mill. The costs of trash delivered under various circumstances are compared with the cost of coal of equivalent energy. Numerous factors influence the cost competitiveness of trash but it is evident that, in...

Peak Electricity and the Clean Power Plan

Complex energy modeling is increasingly central to the development of electricity sector regulations, and perhaps increasingly necessary. But environmental agencies need to remain vigilant to avoid vulnerabilities created when models designed for broad energy system projections are repurposed for the design of detailed pollution control policies. All models are false, some are useful, and by im...

Power of one non-clean qubit

Tomoyuki Morimae, ∗ Keisuke Fujii, 3, † and Harumichi Nishimura ‡ ASRLD Unit, Gunma University, 1-5-1 Tenjincho, Kiryu, Gunma, 376-0052, Japan Photon Science Center, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 2-11-16 Yayoi, Bunkyoku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan JST, PRESTO, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Furoc...

Electricity Markets and the Clean Power Plan