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Mess? Turn that around into an opportunity: charge for clean-energy-powered carbon capture.

• duxup 7y ago
  I'm not sure I follow, charge ... who for what?
  • haser_au 7y ago
    1) Implement a carbon tax (price on carbon) 2) Build a CCS Plant [1] 3) Run CCS plant using renewable energy. Charge your customers (people who need to offset their carbon footprint by buying carbon credits, such as big industry). 4) Profit [1] http://www.ccsassociation.org/what-is-ccs/ http://www.ccsassociation.org/what-is-ccs/
    • duxup 7y ago
      Considering the price is 0 at times, does that make sense? More capacity?
  • inetknght 7y ago
    I'm sorry I thought I was clear. Let me try to make it clearer: > That seems like a recipe for folks just building endlessly regardless of demand In some ways, yes. If so, it definite could create a problem wherein there's more supply than demand. > pulling money from government... The ethics of government capture aside, this sounds to me like that's rather the _point_ of a government subsidy on something: to build more supply of that something. > and an eventual mess when you fix it and nobody is making money suddenly... Fix what? The idea that there's too much electricity and so nobody makes money? Then come up with another way to use the electricity. Charge money to use the excess electricity for something useful. For example: capturing carbon.