His timeline and goals are not that crazy, even though I don’t support them.
Anyone who follows the power industry knows that it, like so many industries, is about incremental annual improvements in efficiency. For example, power plants of 20-30 years ago, operated at 40% efficiency. The typical new power plant is now closer to 70% due to a range of engineering improvements implemented over that time.
Improvements in capturing CO2 have been more difficult, but progress is being made. There are lots of demonstration projects at different power plants where they are constantly tweaking the systems to make CO2 capture more economical. So, chill, dude. The technotwits will get this squared away before any of this destructive nonsense from the federal government ever sees the light of day.
Could you please give some references for your figures of 40% and 70% efficiencies. My last recollection for thermal power plant efficiencies (coal, oil, nuclear, etc.) was about 32 - 33%. Perhaps you are discussing some other parameter?
Who knows? Maybe Bush’s idea is to postpone real action long enough for the technologies to catch up with the “problem”.
CO2 is not a problem.
People who think CO2 is a problem are the problem.