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Would you rather spend the 10,000 to capture 1 ton of carbon or instead pay 10 factories to reduce their output 10 tons each. We can make it a concrete example
by Gravityloss 8y ago
Would you rather spend the 10,000 to capture 1 ton of carbon or instead pay 10 factories to reduce their output 10 tons each.
We can make it a concrete example.
Build a nuclear plant first.
Alternative 1: use the nuke plant to do carbon capture from the atmosphere while next door ten coal plants run and pollute as before.
Alternative 2: produce electricity so all the ten coal plants stay off.
The latter approach has about 10x the CO2 reduction effect.