[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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