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Potential Land Use Implications of a Global Biofuels Industry
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2008-03)
In this paper we investigate the potential production and implications of a global biofuels industry. We
develop alternative approaches to the introduction of land as an economic factor input, in value and
physical terms, ...
Modeling the Prospects for Hydrogen Powered Transportation Through 2100
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2008-02)
Hydrogen fueled transportation has been proposed as a low carbon alternative to the current gasoline-powered
fleet. Using a computable general equilibrium model of the world economy we explore the
economic viability of ...
Analysis of the Coal Sector under Carbon Constraints
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2008-04)
Application of the MIT Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis (EPPA) model to assessment of the future
of coal under climate policy revealed the need for an improved representation of load dispatch in the
representation ...
Analysis of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Tax Proposals
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2008-04)
The U.S. Congress is considering a set of bills designed to limit the nation’s greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions. Several of these proposals call for a cap-and-trade system; others propose an emissions tax.
This paper ...