EU backs away from 30% emissions target, leak shows (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News

The European Commission will not urge EU nations to set tougher targets on climate change despite analysis showing that doing so would be cost-effective.

On Tuesday the commission will unveil a road-map on climate and energy policy.

Its own analysis said that a target of a 25% cut by 2020 could easily be met, and would be economically better than the existing target of 20%.

However, a senior diplomatic source has told BBC News that the final version will explicitly urge sticking at 20%.

The news has disappointed climate campaigners who accused heavy industries of "scaremongering".
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12647657

[txlibdem]

1. The thing is, heavy industries should move to consentrated solar as their "fuel" source

I posted about this a while back. There was a youtube video showing the power of using a parabolic mirror to concentrate the sun; it could melt rock (now THAT's hot!) with a 6' diameter mirror.

Just think what industry could do with a row of 40 foot diameter parabolic mirrors focusing the sun onto a heat transfer strip along the side of their building. With current sun tracking techniques being so cheap (Bill Gross says you can do it with a $1 chip and a couple of motors) I would think that industry would look favorably toward using solar to reduce their fossil fuel use. They would save millions each year (if not tens of millions).

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. However, concentrated solar power depends on full sunlight

It'd be useless on a cloudy day - the light isn't coming from one single direction, so it can't be concentrated in a single spot. So it's intermittent - which is not what industry is looking for. They need a predictable power supply.