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Nuclear power for energy. Forestation/harvesting for carbon capture.

hvasilev 7y ago
If I have to choose between mass nuclear to replace fossil fuels or the alternative of global warming .... I choose global warming.
- suprfnk 7y ago
  Can you elaborate on why?
  - krageon 7y ago
    To my mind: - We have not solved storage in a way that is reliable enough for nuclear waste - Nuclear uses another limited resource that will run out, then we'll have to switch again - Nuclear isn't much better than renewable, and renewable is also available (and has problems that are currently tractable)
atorodius 7y ago
Forestation for the win! But apparently there are a lot of people looking into it (http://trees.org http://trees.org, http://edenprojects.org http://edenprojects.org, https://onetreeplanted.org https://onetreeplanted.org -- which even has awesome mini-crowd-funds for your company/wedding/etc: https://www.classy.org/campaign/tree-ambassadors/c200082 https://www.classy.org/campaign/tree-ambassadors/c200082). How do you get large scale adoption though? Laws? Government projects? Millionaires?
- growlist 7y ago
  I'm wondering about crowdfunding and putting the land into a national land bank.
- rexpop 7y ago
  Government projects, on the international scale.
- ralusek 7y ago
  Government could subsidize the price of lumber. You want it to be a more economical alternative than farmland. Then leave things like efficient use of water, tree density, and type of fast growing tree to the market, those are probably already optimized.
- claystu 7y ago
  Tax incentives. It's how we encourage a lot of good samaritan behavior. Offer tax deductions for trees and watch forests pop up everywhere.
realusername 7y ago
I've seen some promising research from olivine rocks for carbon capture: https://projectvesta.org/ https://projectvesta.org/. I can't vouch for the science behind it because I'm not knowledgeable in this but it sounds a good idea.

If I have to choose between mass nuclear to replace fossil fuels or the alternative of global warming .... I choose global warming.

suprfnk 7y ago
Can you elaborate on why?
- krageon 7y ago
  To my mind: - We have not solved storage in a way that is reliable enough for nuclear waste - Nuclear uses another limited resource that will run out, then we'll have to switch again - Nuclear isn't much better than renewable, and renewable is also available (and has problems that are currently tractable)

atorodius 7y ago

Forestation for the win! But apparently there are a lot of people looking into it (http://trees.org http://trees.org, http://edenprojects.org http://edenprojects.org, https://onetreeplanted.org https://onetreeplanted.org -- which even has awesome mini-crowd-funds for your company/wedding/etc: https://www.classy.org/campaign/tree-ambassadors/c200082 https://www.classy.org/campaign/tree-ambassadors/c200082). How do you get large scale adoption though? Laws? Government projects? Millionaires?

growlist 7y ago
I'm wondering about crowdfunding and putting the land into a national land bank.
rexpop 7y ago
Government projects, on the international scale.
ralusek 7y ago
Government could subsidize the price of lumber. You want it to be a more economical alternative than farmland. Then leave things like efficient use of water, tree density, and type of fast growing tree to the market, those are probably already optimized.
claystu 7y ago
Tax incentives. It's how we encourage a lot of good samaritan behavior. Offer tax deductions for trees and watch forests pop up everywhere.

realusername 7y ago

I've seen some promising research from olivine rocks for carbon capture: https://projectvesta.org/ https://projectvesta.org/. I can't vouch for the science behind it because I'm not knowledgeable in this but it sounds a good idea.