[Greenbuilding] Carbon and Nitrogen taxes - was drying clothes

Jason Holstine jason at amicusgreen.com
Thu Sep 1 13:12:29 CDT 2011


A carbon tax would be the nickname but it would be indexed against GWP ­
global warming potential, and different gases have assigned GWP multipliers
that the tax would be calculated against. This is of course assuming we¹re
on a different planet for the talk of a carbon tax to begin with.


On 9/1/11 11:56 AM, "sanjay jain" <sanjayjainuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Since Nitrogen may be the bigger problem, do we need a Nitrogen tax too? Maybe
> a sulfur and fluorine tax??
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas#Global_warming_potential
> 
> 
> Atmospheric lifetime and GWP
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential>  relative to CO2 at
> different time horizon for various greenhouse gases.
> Gas name Chemical
> formula Lifetime
> (years) Global warming potential (GWP) for given time horizon
> 20-yr 100-yr 500-yr
> Carbon dioxide <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide> CO2 See above 1 1
> 1 
> Methane <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane> CH4 12 72 25 7.6
> Nitrous oxide <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrous_oxide> N2O 114 289 298 153
> CFC-12 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFC-12> CCl2F2 100 11 000 10 900 5 200
> HCFC-22 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCFC-22> CHClF2 12 5 160 1 810 549
> Tetrafluoromethane <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrafluoromethane> CF4 50
> 000 5 210 7 390 11 200
> Hexafluoroethane <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexafluoroethane> C2F6 10 000 8
> 630 12 200 18 200
> Sulphur hexafluoride <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulphur_hexafluoride> SF6 3
> 200 16 300 22 800 32 600
> Nitrogen trifluoride <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_trifluoride> NF3
> 740 12 300 17 200 20 700
> 
> 
> From: elitalking <elitalking at rockbridge.net>
> To: Green Building <greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2011 11:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Drying Clothes
> 
>   
> Amen to Carbon Tax for simplicity of getting to the point and getting the non
> caring to participate in the solution.
> Eli
> 
> 
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