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 power cost for extracting carbon from the atmosphere would exceed the benefit.
Long-term, it’s almost certain to be the wrong approach as well. Instead of worrying about the consumption end, focusing on the production end solves not just the emission problem but the resource availability problem. That is, manufacturing petroleum instead of pumping it from the ground.
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