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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Capturing carbon with currently known technologies is inefficient and expensive to do compared to simply changing the way we make energy.
Imagine making electricity by burning coal. The carbon dioxide and other pollutants are a glass of cool aid and it gets dumped into a swimming pool, representing our atmosphere.
It’s a lot easier to simply find a way to make electricity that doesn’t result in dumping cool aid into the pool than to try to suck out the *very diffuse* cool aid from the pool.
Wind and solar are better ways to do that.
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