Fiscal Year 2001 Climate Change Budget Authorization Request: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, March 9, 2000, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 2001 |
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... fuel per unit of energy than other fossil fuels and because natural gas technologies tend to be more efficient , it ... fuel used for generation has important implications for translating electricity savings into carbon reductions ...
... fuel per unit of energy than other fossil fuels and because natural gas technologies tend to be more efficient , it ... fuel used for generation has important implications for translating electricity savings into carbon reductions ...
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... fuel Synthetic natural gas Fuel Type Emission Rate ( million metric tons per quadrillion Btu ) 25.33 20.98 14.54 19.42 19.97 19.46 20.00 Baseline Assumptions Some of the key assumptions underlying the Administration Baseline are ...
... fuel Synthetic natural gas Fuel Type Emission Rate ( million metric tons per quadrillion Btu ) 25.33 20.98 14.54 19.42 19.97 19.46 20.00 Baseline Assumptions Some of the key assumptions underlying the Administration Baseline are ...
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... fuel prices , " consumer hurdle rates " ( Table 7 ) -which capture the consumer tradeoff between investing in conservation technology today and projected fuel savings in the future , existing stock efficiencies , and characteristics of ...
... fuel prices , " consumer hurdle rates " ( Table 7 ) -which capture the consumer tradeoff between investing in conservation technology today and projected fuel savings in the future , existing stock efficiencies , and characteristics of ...
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... fuel prices and economic and demographic information from the IDEAS model are used to compute fuel use for the rest of the model . The light- and heavy - duty vehicle sector of the model is divided into six subsectors : car ownership , fuel ...
... fuel prices and economic and demographic information from the IDEAS model are used to compute fuel use for the rest of the model . The light- and heavy - duty vehicle sector of the model is divided into six subsectors : car ownership , fuel ...
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... fuel use on the basis of these characteristics . Total vehicle sales are tracked discretely in an aging chain over a period of 20 years and are disaggregated by vehicle type , size class , fuel type , and age . Age - specific survival ...
... fuel use on the basis of these characteristics . Total vehicle sales are tracked discretely in an aging chain over a period of 20 years and are disaggregated by vehicle type , size class , fuel type , and age . Age - specific survival ...
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