CDE Policy Affirmative/Negative Case Handbooks 2008-2009 Alternative Energy

2008-2009: ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

AFFIRMATIVE CASE BOOK

400 pages of Cases and Affirmative blocks, including consideration of alternate energy tax credit, Big beef taxes, bioconversion, carbon taxes, cap and trade, energy bonds, fuel cells, geothermal, hydrogen, Jathropa bean, ocean NG, photovoltaics, recycled energy, residential solar, soft energy, switchgrass, two-way meters, waste-to-energy, wave ng, , much more. The average CDE Affirmative Cases book includes 16-24 different verbatim first affirmative cases plus extension blocks and answers to negative generic attacks.

DISADVANTAGE ANSWER blocks include politics, cost-benefit, environmental impact answers, environmental ethic, ice age, OPEC, terrorism spurt, Unemployment, business dislocation, embargo risk, others. KRITIK answers on deep ecology, Ecofeminism, ecomodernism, ecological Terror, ecoscam, externalization, scapegoating, nuclearism, nuclear numbing, Science, techno-logic, techno-strategic, more.

TOPICALITY answers on Effects, alternative vs. renewable energy, government, substantially, incentives, in.

COUNTERPLAN Answers to states, interstate compacts, Business/Private, more.

This is a great teaching and coaching aid. It lets you and your debaters practice against each other’s cases. It gives you novices a choice of great cases to use. The extensions serve as both models to help students learn how it’s done and as in-round tools to help with debates. 350 plus pages, a wonderful diversity of cases and so many extension blocks it boggles the mind.

NEGATIVE CASE BOOKS (ALL THREE VOLUMES)

600-700 pages!

Alt. Fuels Credit Battery electric vehicle Big Beef/Methane Bioconversion Biodiesel Bioenergy Biofuels Biogas Biorefineries Blue energy Building Codes Carbon Taxes Clean Ren. NG Bonds CHP (combi. heat & Power) Clean technology Coal bed methane Dams/Hydroelectric Energy-efficiency Tech. Energy tower Ethanol Fission and Fusion Fuel Cell Geothermal (both dry & Hot rock) Geothermal heat pump Green building Green NG certification GTL (Gas to liquid) Hybrid or Green vehicles Hydrogen/Hyd. Vehicle Hydrokinetics Jathropa bean LED/Light Emitting Diodes, LNG Loan guarantees Low-carbon economy Microturbine Nanocomposite material for solar cells Natural gas Nonbusiness NG Property Tax Credit Nuclear Energy/Power Ocean NG Ocean Thermal NG Oil sand/Tar sand Photovoltaics Photovol. Power stns. Plug-in hybrid vehicles Pyrolysis Renewable NG Certificates Recycled Energy Systems Renewable NG Stubs Renewable natural gas Renewable Portfolio Stand. Residential solar systems Residential Wind Energy Resource Standards Seasonal thermal store Soft energy, Solar design Solar guerilla Solar silicon, Solar Wafers Switchgrass Tax break repeal; Tax Credit Tax Incentives Tidal power Tight gas Two-way Meters Waste mgt. Waste-to-energy Wave energy Wind Farms Wood chips Wood fuel /pallets Wood gas Zero-energy building/Low NG building

DISADVANTAGES & Harm Turns Cost-Benefit/Expense Env. Harms of NG Gen. Environmental Ethic Ice Age OPEC Terrorists Tipping point

COUNTERPLANS Building Codes-Local/State NGOs, Int'l Organizations Interstate Compacts States/Federalism

HARMS Fuel poverty, Global Warming Peak oil, Tipping Point, water or air pollution, Runoff, import vulnerability, national security, war, deforestation, desertifi-cation, petroauthoritarianism

KRITIKS Anthropocentrism Deep Ecology, Earth-talk Ecofeminism Eco-Modernism Ecological Terror, Eco-Scam, Environmental Externalization, Env. Scapegoating, Nuclearism Nuclear Numbing, Nuke-speak, Science, Scientific Realism, Techno-Strategic

SOLVENCY & ATTACKS Person power shortages Bureaucracy Infrastructure Enforcement Export Growth U.S. action not enuf

INHERENCY CAFÉ Standards Clean NG Trends Econ Security & Rec.Act Energy infrastructure Energy Tax Act EPA, Federal vehicle standards, Incandescent light bulb out, Solar, Wind, Geothermal Power Incentives Act

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“Your generic blocks are really good. I get bothered by how much duplication all the other handbooks have, its like they’re all written by the same person.” John Denton-Hill

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[Pre-order now and the product will be emailed to you late June/July 2008]