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Almost the entirety of emissions are made up of 5% when you decompose by sector. There is no silver bullet for reducing your carbon footprint. You should lower
by revax 7y ago
Almost the entirety of emissions are made up of 5% when you decompose by sector.
There is no silver bullet for reducing your carbon footprint. You should lower emissions for all industries at the same time.
- jpeanuts 7y agoThis is a very important idea. On a global scale this idea has been codified as "climate stabilzation wedges": https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/stabilization-wedges/ https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/stabilizatio... Each "wedge" is one method of reducing net CO2 output by 1 gigaton/year by 2054. Each wedge is a major economic and technological undertaking. Current estimates are that 13 wedges would be needed to limit CO2 to below 500 ppm. We have currently implemented 0 wedges.
- melling 7y ago“ 4. Efficient coal plants: raise the efficiency of coal power plants to 60%. In 2004, when they wrote their paper, “coal plants, operating on average at 32% efficiency, produced about one fourth of all carbon emissions” Coal is 25% of carbon emissions. We could have reduced this 2 decades ago. Instead we’re quibbling over 2.5% of emissions.