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If nuclear is on the table, then okay maybe but it would take decades and many billions of $ to ramp up capacity. Solar was just an example, but all of the rene
by seiferteric 7y ago
If nuclear is on the table, then okay maybe but it would take decades and many billions of $ to ramp up capacity. Solar was just an example, but all of the renewables will have the same problems I mentioned, there is no way you are going to get that scale of renewable capacity installed and running just for the aviation industry any time soon. And as for fossil fuels... what? I don't even understand, why would you use fossil fuels to extract CO2 out of the air, that makes no sense...
- JumpCrisscross 7y ago> it would take decades and many billions of $ to ramp up capacity. As would re-tooling (a) the economy to be less reliant on travel or (b) the entire aviation fleet to be e.g. battery-electric. Change is expensive. We're comparing costs, and when I've done that, synethetic fuel is the best near-term, i.e. within 50 years, solution. > why would you use fossil fuels to extract CO2 out of the air Big plants (can) burn much cleaner than jet engines. (Also, it's an interim step.)
- seiferteric 7y ago> > why would you use fossil fuels to extract CO2 out of the air >Big plants (can) burn much cleaner than jet engines. (Also, it's an interim step.) Please show me how you extract more CO2 out of the air by burning fossil fuels than you release.