Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
I suspect that neither of these take the eventual costs associated with global warming into account.
Actually, the first article did take a stab at this. It is almost impossible to quantify, of course, but the author wrote about coal:
". . . The climate issues were quantified also by the Ontario Ministry of Energy at around 1.07 cent per kilowatt hour. This climate number is a guess because few know just what we are dealing with or how to best quantify this. We also do not know where this commodity will be priced when you need it. I have not quantified this risk. Anyway, if you add these numbers, you have to wonder why we are burning so much coal as compared to gas."
- Jed
