GHG Management ApproachGHG Management Approach

- Layout

- Practical Example

- Local Context

Gainesville Energy Advisory Committee (GEAC)

May 21,2002

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-What

-Where

-When

-How much

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Volume

Location

Year

Lots

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of info

Source Sink

                                                                                                                                                                                                 

On gallon turns into 172 cubic feet / 4.87 cubic meters of CO2.

                                                                                                   

1 ton of CO2 takes up 19,000 cubic feet / 556 cubic meters space

Example:

Width = 8.12 mLength = 8.12 mHeight = 8.12 mVolume = 536 m³Temperature = 15º CPressure = 760 torrWeight = 1000 kg CO2

GPS coordinates:North: 29º40.403’West: 082º24.835’Elevation: 64m

Creating a Volumetric GPS Timestamp (VGT), or CarbonMap™

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1990 2000 2010

0.59ºC

0.22ºC0.40ºC

Use Temperature to Establish Relative Values

-Event Level

-Source

-Communicate

-Intercept Existing Data Streams

-Volume x Carbon Factor

-Lots of Data Out There

-Standard Applications

Shumard Oaks (Quercus shumardii) on campus

Tree 1:7 years oldVolume = .11 m3

Tree 2:19 years oldVolume = .69 m3

Tree 3:32 years oldVolume = 3.2 m3

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P ro fess iona ls : aud ito rsE S C O 's , R E P ro fess iona ls

C ity /C oun ty /S ta teN a tiona l G ov e rnm ent

In t'l C om pany

C om pany

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A ccoun t M anagem entuse r inc lude :

V enue to exchangev e rified em ission reductions

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T o b rand G H G neu tralp roducts and se rv ices

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ICBE:a server-based w orkshop

to m anage carbon activ ities

Carbon Bank, stores amount of carbon in transaction, the source device, the sink, and the various people / organizations involved (edited for security)

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[bank] (

[SERIAL] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL ,

[original_mass] [int] NOT NULL ,

[net_mass] [int] NOT NULL ,

[compound_id] [int] NOT NULL ,

[producer_id] [int] NULL,

[prod_owner_id] [int] NULL ,

[prod_affiliate_id] [int] NULL ,

[prod_manufacturer_id] [int] NULL ,

[prod_unit_price] [money] NULL ,

[sink_id] [int] NULL ,

[sink_owner_id] [int] NULL ,

[sink_affiliate_id] [int] NULL ,

[sink_manufacturer_id] [int] NULL ,

[sink_unit_price] [money] NULL ,

[date_entered] [datetime] NULL ,

[date_modified] [datetime] NULL ,

[sink_comment_id] [int] NULL

- Yukon

- Carbon Buddy

- Exact Match

Much reduction is Much reduction is needed to reach stabilityneeded to reach stability

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Human emission rate in billion t/C/yr

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Equilibrium

Latent atmospheric C is about 188 billion ton

Emissions the earth absorbs in billion t/C/yr

To reduce local emissions by 20%, how much is it worth? How much does it cost?

3 MtCO2e x 20% x $15/tCO2e = $9 million for ~ 10 years = $90 million total

3.46¢/l or 16.25¢/gl

3 MMTCO2/yr = 41 km²/yr

Alachua County = 2623 km² or 192,528,200 tCO2 maximum absorption or 63 years

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