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Excellent point. What's the insurance policy for global warming look like? I'd say the favor would be towards planet friendly, low-carbon energy. Biomass is re
by acidburnNSA 8y ago
Excellent point. What's the insurance policy for global warming look like?
I'd say the favor would be towards planet friendly, low-carbon energy. Biomass is renewable but high carbon while nuclear fission is low-carbon but not considered* renewable. Is nuclear fusion considered renewable? Renewability doesn't matter in itself. It's anything that's long-term sustainable given our current understanding of the world.
*though known resources will last at world-scale for at least 10s of thousands of years, and more likely billions of years.
- ddingus 8y agoIt has gotta be very expensive. Yeah, known resources are still very significant compared to our use profile. And that means we have them for necessary uses. Too much consumption is bad. We know that now. Good news is we did bootstrap appropriate tech. No reason not to use it, and frankly the cost does not concern me. (Those externalities are simply huge) What I see is another bootstrap effort. Lots of jobs, economic activity. Many people need that too. Game on.
- AnthonyMouse 8y ago> though known resources will last at world-scale for at least 10s of thousands of years, and more likely billions of years. "Billions of years" is about how long before the sun burns out, so in that sense solar wouldn't be renewable either.