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+Electricity prices declining |
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+Aurium 16 (Aurium Capital Markets – Organization dedicated to investor information, “Why Are Electricity Prices Falling”, http://auriumcapital.com/why-are-electricity-prices-falling/, EmmieeM) |
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+Wholesale electricity prices are down from £60/MWh a few year ago to |
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+AND |
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+lifted at a time when global demand is falling, particularly in Asia. |
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+Renewables spike prices – empirics show |
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+Brook 13 – Barry, ARC Future Fellow in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Adelaide, Australia, Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change, Director of Climate Science at the Environment Institute and co-runs the Global Ecology Lab.“Renewable Energy's Hidden Costs?, March 23, 2013 http://theenergycollective.com/barrybrook/201991/counting-hidden-costs-energy)//a-berg |
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+Table 1 omitted, Figure 1 included |
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+A recent Bloomberg press release got wide coverage with its claim that wind power is |
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+AND |
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+each technology as might apply in the Australian context – see Figure 1. |
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+Figure 1: Total system cost for generation technology (2012) including carbon and grid-level costs Ignoring such costs distorts the picture. For example, Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) recently put out a press release headed “Renewable Energy Now Cheaper Than New Fossil Fuels in Australia”, which attracted a great deal of attention. |
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+Energy price spikes cause food insecurity and spike food prices. |
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+CRS, 08 (Tom Capehart and Joe Richardson, Specialists in Agricultural Policy, Resources, Science and Industry Division, Congressional Research Service, State Department, 4/10/2008, http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/104281.pdf, JKahn) |
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+Higher commodity and food prices reduce our ability to provide food aid to other countries |
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+AND |
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+world’s poorest people to spend a larger proportion of their income on food. |
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+Food price spikes and insecurity cause global resource wars that escalate to nuclear war – turns case |
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+Klare 6 - professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass (“The Coming Resource Wars” Michael March 11, 2006 http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Oil_watch/ComingResourceWars.html) |
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+It's official: the era of resource wars is upon us. In a major |
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+with the rest of the world to slow the pace of global climate change |
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+Independently, low electricity prices key to chemical industry. |
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+Perry 12 (Mark, Prof of Economics @ Univ. of Michigan, "America's Energy Jackpot: Industrial Natural Gas Prices Fall to the Lowest Level in Recent History," http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2012/07/americas–energy–jackpot–industrial.html) |
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+Building petrochemical plants could suddenly become attractive in the United States. Manufacturers will " |
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+seems like a win, win, win, win situation to me. |
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+Chemical industry key to solve disease mutation. |
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+NRC 2002, National Research Council Committee on Challenges for Chemical Sciences in the 21st century “National Security and Homeland Defense” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK114822/)//a-berg |
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+Many drugs are produced by either chemical synthesis or biosynthetic processes. Recent advances in |
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+AND |
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+them for their biological activities or functions also remains a challenge to industry. |
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+Mutations ensure extinction |
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+Yu 9 Victoria Yu, Dartmouth Journal of Undergraduate Science, "Human Extinction: The Uncertainty of Our Fate", 5-22-09 http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/spring-2009/human-extinction-the-uncertainty-of-our-fate |
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+A pandemic will kill off all humans. In the past, humans have indeed |
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+could only infect birds — into a human-viable strain (10). |