I’m listening to a podcast and the lady says we eventually will need to become a net 0 society and then go negative to reverse the effects of climate change.
This entails sucking carbon from the atmosphere. Why can’t we just invest in this now and keep our oil and coal energy? What can this carbon be used for once we have taken it from the atmosphere? She says we just pump it into the ground?
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The scientific community is putting resources towards more sustainable power generation such as gen 4 nuclear reactors and wavelength converters for solar cell. However in many of these areas the material science isn’t where it needs to be yet to completely replace existing power implementations. As far as pulling carbon from the atmosphere, it can be very costly to do this and doesn’t seem to be worth the energy expenditure. There are other alternatives like certain electrochemisty related effects that can create things like methanol and ethanol but they are very difficult to scale production.
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