Oh man wow crazy it's almost like the only way to stop bringing the carbon from outside the carbon cycle to inside the carbon cycle is to stop moving the carbon from outside the carbon cycle to inside the carbon cycle
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2023
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The thermodynamic limits on carbon removal aren't quite that bad, but the technology is nowhere near as good as the constraints physics imposes.
We need to build more nuclear plants and use those to power carbon capture devices, not MORE COAL
Ah that scam of carbon offsets. Guys let us pollute a little bit more, we promise we'll pull it out of the air later.
This is about carbon capture and storage (which takes energy and concrete and by this report doubles the carbon impact of just burning the coal).
Yeah its largely a thing for carbon offset regulations. Like if you emit too much you owe fees but if you "offset" your emissions in some way you can deduct that from your emissions. Stuff like paying tree planting organizations, and imvesting carbon capture technology. The carbon offset scheme dont work, we have to emit less
You are right, but this isn't about offsets.
The main opportunity of carbon capture technology is to power it with excess clean energy during periods of high renewable availability. If you power it with coal, that would be a bad idea in all cases.
What about ramping up bamboo production? It grows super fast and is relatively useful.
It likely has the same limits as tree planting: you can do it, just not anywhere near enough to make up for the amount of CO2 people dump into the atmosphere after burning fossil fuels.