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Tell me if this is incorrect thinking: An advantage of sequestration is location. Something like you can emit the CO2 in a distributed manner (think car tail p
by maerF0x0 8y ago
Tell me if this is incorrect thinking:
An advantage of sequestration is location. Something like you can emit the CO2 in a distributed manner (think car tail pipes) and then sequester it nearby but in aggregate (think a facility just outside city limits)
- vkou 8y agoThe problem is that, in a market economy, like the one we live in, we can dig up and burn coal much faster then we can grow and bury trees. Coal can be mined for $30/tonne. That's 3 cents/kilogram. At that price point, it's nearly free. How can you keep up with sequesteration, when you are competing with nearly-free? Sequestration makes sense when we are talking about an economy that derives ~5-10% of its energy from liquid fossil fuels, and everything else from renewables. It doesn't make much sense when 50% of energy generation comes from fossil fuels. It's just too labour intensive to make it work.
- int_19h 8y agoNot just a market economy - a market economy that does not account for externalities, like carbon emissions in the atmosphere.