Peter Cartwright.

• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 291, Nº. 6, 2004, págs. 52-52
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Focuses on the efforts of Peter Cartwright, chair and CEO of Calpine Corporation, to invest in only energy sources that reduce carbon emissions. In May, Peter Cartwright announced that his company, the electric utility Calpine, would invest only in plants that emit no more carbon per unit of generated electricity than is characteristic of plants fired with natural gas, the low-carbon fossil fuel par excellence. Calpine's policy requires it to reduce future plants' carbon dioxide emissions to 850 pounds per megawatthour, down from its already record-low level of about 900 pounds. The President George W. Bush administration has favored the development of coal-fired plants, which produce much more carbon per watt than other energy sources. Cartwright recommends that the U.S. replace many coal-fired plants and all single-cycle gas-fired plants with the combined-cycle system.