GVPT 273 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Wind Turbine, Panicum Virgatum, Bioenergy

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Government and Politics
• Course: GVPT 273
• Professor: Stephen Arves

Document Summary

Revolution: natural gas is still a fossil fuel and fracking generates sizable leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. These facilities resemble coal-fired power plants, but use recently grown energy crops rather than fossilized swamp plants as fuel and capture the co2 from combustion. So the world needs to find co2-free ways of making steel and concrete. it would take on the order of 100 million artificial trees to counteract the 40 billion metric tons of co2 added to the atmosphere each year.