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标题：How stable are preferences among emerging electricity generation technologies
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作者：Yanran Yang ; Gabrielle Wong-Parodi ; Baruch Fischhoff 等
期刊名称：Environmental Research Communications
印刷版ISSN：2515-7620
出版年度：2019
卷号：1
期号：7
页码：1-11
DOI：10.1088/2515-7620/ab2ec0
出版社：IOP Publishing
摘要：Coal-fired power plants with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), natural-gas-fired power plants with CCS, and Small Modular Reactors (SMR) are potentially important emerging energy technologies that could help mitigate climate change and contribute to a low-carbon future. Public opinion and preferences towards these technologies will affect their adoption when they are technologically ready to be implemented. This study examines the nature and stability of public preferences among these options. We find that participants have internally consistent preferences, when tested in several ways. Overall, they prefer SMRs to natural gas with CCS to coal with CCS. On a group level, these preferences depend on the choice alternatives, but not on how fully the technologies are described nor how far away a hypothetical power plant would be sited. On the individual level, preferences are related to participants' perceptions of the technology and their political ideology. Our findings suggest that presenting the three technologies together will produce the most balanced, informed judgment, with the least influence of political ideology.
关键词：public preferences;attraction effect;energy policy;nuclear power;carbon capture and sequestration