{"id":24427,"date":"2016-04-08T05:26:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T12:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=24427"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:24:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:24:36","slug":"why-fossil-fuel-power-plants-will-be-left-stranded-by-martin-wolf-financial-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/why-fossil-fuel-power-plants-will-be-left-stranded-by-martin-wolf-financial-times","title":{"rendered":"Why fossil fuel power plants will be left stranded \u2014 By Martin Wolf | Financial Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/eb35ff85-f339-4837-9fe0-8671b0617cd9.img_.jpeg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"firstletter\">\u201cV<\/span>irtually all new fossil fuel-burning power-generation capacity will end up \u201cstranded\u201d. This is the argument of a paper by <a title=\"The \u20182\u00b0C capital stock\u2019 for electricity generation - Science Direct\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0306261916302495\" target=\"_blank\">academics at Oxford university<\/a>. We have grown used to the idea that it will be impossible to burn a large portion of estimated reserves of fossil fuels if the likely rise in global mean temperatures is to be kept below 2C. But fuels are not the only assets that might be stranded. A similar logic can be applied to parts of the capital stock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/a2d181a0-f839-11e5-803c-d27c7117d132.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fcomment_columnists_martin-wolf%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct#axzz45ElfaxBn\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cVirtually all new fossil fuel-burning power-generation capacity will end up \u201cstranded\u201d. This is the argument of a paper by academics at Oxford university. We have grown used to the idea that it will be impossible to burn a large portion of estimated reserves of fossil fuels if the likely rise in global mean temperatures is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1528,32,1497,1507,1759,1496,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-disruptive-technology","category-education","category-energy","category-environmental","category-governance","category-law","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42659,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24427\/revisions\/42659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}