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That's why I'm trying to estimate energy requirements of such a process. Somebody experienced with gas liquification could perhaps help. You have to build thes
by avmich 7y ago
That's why I'm trying to estimate energy requirements of such a process. Somebody experienced with gas liquification could perhaps help.
You have to build these cleaning devices, and you'll need to build energy sources for them. We do have both power and increase in power supply with time; the question is specific numbers, which I'm trying to estimate.
- stouset 7y agoBut that’s the problem. When you say you could just build new clean energy sources for these things, you’d be better off by only doing that. Every kWh of clean energy produced is far more effective at addressing climate change when it replaces a kWh generated by fossil fuel than it is trying to remove the carbon from that fossil fuel after the fact.
- avmich 7y ago> Every kWh of clean energy produced is far more effective at addressing climate change when it replaces a kWh generated by fossil fuel than it is trying to remove the carbon from that fossil fuel after the fact. True. However, here are two significant, in my opinion, notes. 1) We already have a lot of CO2 in the air. We'd better get it out, and sooner. 2) We're proving every day our limited abilities in organizing focused efforts in fighting climate crisis, particularly by a single specific way. So, if we could reduce organizational problems by choosing a solution which has less of them, we could win in practice. It's rather obvious that it's better not to get CO2 into the air in the first place. Looks like we can't avoid doing that now. So other options become interesting.