Economic Impacts of Carbon Taxes and Biomass Feedstock Usage in Southeastern United States Coal Utilities

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burton C. English ◽  
Kim Jensen ◽  
Jamey Menard ◽  
Marie E. Walsh ◽  
Craig Brandt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nitrogen Oxide ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Sulfur Compounds ◽  
Biomass Feedstock ◽  
Carbon Taxes ◽  
Nitrogen Oxide Emissions ◽  
Biomass Feedstocks

The Southeastern United States depends on coal to supply 60% of its electricity needs. The region leads in CO2 emissions and ranks second in emissions of SO2 and NO2. Compared with coal, biomass feedstocks have lower emission levels of sulfur or sulfur compounds and can potentially reduce nitrogen oxide emissions. This study examines the economic impacts of cofiring biomass feedstocks with coal in coal-fired plants under three emission credit and two cofiring level scenarios. Economic impacts are estimated for producing, collecting, and transporting feedstock; retrofitting coal-fired utilities for burning feedstock; operating cofired utilities; and coal displaced from burning the feedstock.

scholarly journals Changing Patterns in U.S. Air Quality

Eos ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Schultz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Nitrogen Oxide ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
Nitrogen Oxide Emissions ◽  
Ground Level Ozone ◽  
Northeast United States ◽  
Changing Patterns

Over the northeast United States, ground-level ozone will peak in the winter rather than the summer thanks to continued reductions of regional nitrogen oxide emissions from smokestacks and tailpipes.

Does Enhancing Mind Perception Affect Conspiracy Belief?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Noguera
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
Mind Perception ◽  
Mixed Anova ◽  
Interaction Term ◽  
The Mind

This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of a novel mind perception manipulation. Mind perception is currently theorized to be an essential aspect of a number of human social psychological processes. Thus, a successful manipulation would allow for the causal study of those processes. This manipulation was created in an attempt to explore the downstream impact of mind perception on the endorsement of conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories are steadily becoming more and more prominent in social discourse. Endorsement of conspiracy theories are beginning to show real world ramifications such as a danger to human health (e.g., in the anti-vaccination movement). A sample of college students (valid N = 53) from a large rural institution in the southeastern United States participated for course credit. These participants completed a mind perception pretest, were randomly assigned to either the manipulation in question (in which participants are asked to consider the ‘mind’ of several targets and write their thoughts about them) or the control condition, and then they completed a posttest. The mixed ANOVA revealed that the interaction term between Time and Condition was not significant. Because the manipulation did not work, other analyses were aborted, in accord with the pre-registration. My Discussion focuses on the procedures and potential shortcomings of this manipulation, in an effort to lay the groundwork for a successful one.

Selected fluvial monazite deposits in the southeastern United States

1971 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Overstreet ◽  
A.M. White ◽  
P.K. Theobald ◽  
D.W. Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Southeastern United States
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