I think carbon capture is the way, I will soon do a show hn of our little company called carbonHarvester, we have as per as I know the cheapest technology of capturing the CO2 out of thin air, our aim is to enable anyone using an air conditioner to harvest CO2 from thin air with a little additional energy bill, and we can regenerate the captured CO2 cheaply.
Carbon Capture and Storage is necessary to keep global warming below 2°C
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#92So who pays? Government isn't going to convince people to do it, or else they would have just implemented carbon taxes to begin with.
Re: Carbon Capture and Storage is necessary to keep global warming below 2°C
#93I think carbon capture is the way, I will soon do a show hn of our little company called carbonHarvester, we have as per as I know the cheapest technology of capturing the CO2 out of thin air, our aim is to enable anyone using an air conditioner to harvest CO2 from thin air with a little additional energy bill, and we can regenerate the captured CO2 cheaply.
Nice! Add your company to AirMiners, the largest index of companies mining carbon fro the air:
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We'll feature it on the top of the list.
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#94People are missing the fact that the oil and gas industry is strongly in favour of CCS for 2 main reasons: 1. It makes extracting and burning oil not so bad - no need to make rules limiting oil extraction, we can simply start some CCS projects. 2. Injecting CO2 into deep oil wells actually helps get more oil out of them. Get the government to pay for CCS, while the oil company profits off increased yields.
So what? I thought the goal was to solve climate change, not to spite the oil companies.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is actually an important point. It doesn't remove the need for CCS though. I think people advocating for CCS should be careful what they ask for. Reasonable things to do would be: a) CCS should be confined to areas where no feasible technical alternative exists (e.g. cement) and to negative emissions. b) No support for CCS as in Enhanced Oil Recovery. This is creating more emissions than it avoids.
What is the reference to cement supposed to indicate here?
Cement also typically covers a large square footage area of natural carbon absorbing material. So on top of the carbon required in the manufacturing/installation of the cement, the amount of trees cleared should be accounted as well since the cement does not absorb carbon.
Re: Carbon Capture and Storage is necessary to keep global warming below 2°C
#96I think carbon capture is the way, I will soon do a show hn of our little company called carbonHarvester, we have as per as I know the cheapest technology of capturing the CO2 out of thin air, our aim is to enable anyone using an air conditioner to harvest CO2 from thin air with a little additional energy bill, and we can regenerate the captured CO2 cheaply.
Nice! Add your company to AirMiners, the largest index of companies mining carbon fro the air: http://airminers.org We'll feature it on the top of the list.
Wow nice index, will add ASAP, your site need the lock (https) by the way. Thanks.
Re: Carbon Capture and Storage is necessary to keep global warming below 2°C
#97People are missing the fact that the oil and gas industry is strongly in favour of CCS for 2 main reasons: 1. It makes extracting and burning oil not so bad - no need to make rules limiting oil extraction, we can simply start some CCS projects. 2. Injecting CO2 into deep oil wells actually helps get more oil out of them. Get the government to pay for CCS, while the oil company profits off increased yields.
You're right. Somewhere around 2023 Fox News is going to do a complete about-face on global warming, aggressively urging taxpayers to fund these initiatives, conveniently forgetting everything they ever said on the topic, and watchers will somehow make sense of it.
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#98CCS is absolutely going to be necessary. So is nuclear. What is the renewable alternative for the cement, steel, shipping, and aviation industries? Environmentalists need to get out of their own way and stop treating good as the enemy of perfect. Some progress is better than no progress. All technologies and approaches will be required. https://mobile.twitter.com/Peters_Glen/status/11948866002552...
I very much doubt nuclear is going to be necessary, or even viable. And this is particularly the case if CCS is viable, because that means we can keep pairing renewables, plus fossil (with CCS) to fill in the gaps.
Nuclear is already viable in countries with sane regulatory environments (France, and hopefully China, given how fast they’re ramping up).
The fact that the US market structure and regulators led to unsafe and unprofitable power plants has little to do with the underlying technology.
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#99I want to applaud you for making the most vanilla contribution in 114 years. It turns out that everyone who appears to care doesn't give a shit, and CCD doesn't matter, and neither does natural gas. I personally think it is a huge global warming scam - but if I am wrong - go to nukes. They waiting and safe (recently)
Re: Carbon Capture and Storage is necessary to keep global warming below 2°C
#100People are missing the fact that the oil and gas industry is strongly in favour of CCS for 2 main reasons: 1. It makes extracting and burning oil not so bad - no need to make rules limiting oil extraction, we can simply start some CCS projects. 2. Injecting CO2 into deep oil wells actually helps get more oil out of them. Get the government to pay for CCS, while the oil company profits off increased yields.
You're right. Somewhere around 2023 Fox News is going to do a complete about-face on global warming, aggressively urging taxpayers to fund these initiatives, conveniently forgetting everything they ever said on the topic, and watchers will somehow make sense of it.
And if that happens, are you going to take the win, or are you going to cut off your nose to spite your face?