Solutions for Nonenergy Emissions

WWS technologies eliminate energy-related emissions of air pollutants that affect health and climate. Energy-related emissions are responsible for about 90 percent of anthropogenic air-pollution health problems worldwide and 75–80 percent of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. As such, some emissions that affect human health and climate do not come from energy sources, but they must still be reduced or eliminated in order to help solve the air-pollution and climate problems the world faces. Such nonenergy emissions include gases and particles from open biomass burning; methane from agriculture and landfill waste; halogens from leaks and their reckless disposal; and nitrous oxide from fertilizers, industry, and wastewater treatment. This chapter discusses these sources of emissions and methods of controlling them.