$45 trillion needed to combat warming
The Bear on Jun 09 2008 at 8:28 am | Filed under: Global Warming
TOKYO - The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to an energy study released Friday.
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Putting $45 trillion dollars in Perspective
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-The present budget for the United States is about $3 trillion.
-The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is about $14 trillion.
-The estimated wealth of all Americans is about $59 trillion.
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Uh, to be fair, those figures for the US are for one year, and they said “over the coming decades”. Assuming two decades minimum, that’s 4.5 trillion a year FROM THE WORLD, and if you just spread that out like the cafe scenario where the rich man pays the most, that leaves the US with about a trillion, maybe less. Subtract from that how much we already spend, and I’d say it’s easily doable, especially since we have no new nuke plants, those already here need major renovations if not complete tear down and rebuilds, and to cover our needs alone, and not all of those needs, we’d need to build at least a hundred. That 4.5 trillion comes down to 45 billion per nuke plant. Not sure how much each one costs, but if we only did that much, it would probably go a long way to the 45 trillion they’re talking about.
Problem is, we won’t, we’ll waste it on global warming and projects for Big Brother instead of solving the real problem.