No wonder guys like Joseph Romm hardly ever respond to my stuff.  Hehey.  He has 14 wedges of energy policy that he says are the best way to head off climate disaster. 

Not quite there yet Joe.  It's necessary to weed out the impractical wedges and boost the proven, low cost wedges.

The low cost wedges fit together to make them all work better.  That will get the GHG levels down faster.

Here's the real problem.  Somehow leaders must be made aware of exactly wich wedges need to stay and be boosted with heavy direct subsidies and which are basically expensive boondoggles that don't really reduce GHG.  Instead they soak up scarce capital, financial and political.

Come on Joe, admit it.  You know ethanol, from whatever biomass grown on soil will never reduce GHG.  it's based on the faulty carbon cycle analysis.

Nuclear power?  10 Yucca mountains?  Please.

60 mpg?  When plugin hybrids already get well over 100 mpg.

Clean coal CCS?  Give up on this already.

No-till?  No organic ag with biogas digestors supplying the organic fertilizer?  This is worth multiple wedges in curtailed methane.  And in revived carbon sink soil activity.  And in savings from the huge GHG released in the production, mining, transportation (ammonia comes from russia on tankers now, thanks to corn ethanol), and application of chemical fertilizer.

The biogas supplies a storable backup distributed power source for the grid.  Which allows the rest of the grid to use solar, wind, and water (current and wave power generation)for it's entire load.

Furthermore you make no mention of geo heat exchange heating/cooling.  Heating and cooling building accounts for 36% of GHG.  By using solar cogeneration to power the geo heat exchange, storing energy as heat/cold, that entire 36% dissappears.

The rest of the plan is fine though.

But if we are going to get this done at the lowest cost, with the most effective, quickest gHG reduction.  This selection needs to be made.

This plan needs to be understood interactively, with one wedge helping the next wedge work.  Please try to at least consider this point of view.  Why not take a shortcut and do it now, instead of waiting until it's obvious.

By that time it maybe too late.  look at the time article.  The state of knowledge on this is sickening in the mass media.  The same old diversionary lies are repeated over and over and over...

Is this how we supplied the arsenal of democracy to win WW2?  No it's not.  We needed a jeep, government selected one and got it mass produced.  The same with liberty ships, tanks, planes, the bomb.  

They didn't say we'll just try a lot of stuff and see what works.  In fact Germany did that.  It didn't work.