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Most of your yearly 15 tons is emitted via specific exhaust pipes, where capture part is quite easy problem, even without these cooling towers. The big problem
by jaakl 6y ago
Most of your yearly 15 tons is emitted via specific exhaust pipes, where capture part is quite easy problem, even without these cooling towers. The big problem is what to do with all of it: there is no commercial use/market, especially if you want that to be climate friendly, ie not dumped to atmosphere quite soon anyway. We'd need to think of it as toxic waste, similar to nuclear one, to be stored forever underground, but can we (as civilization) afford it?
- baq 6y agofor every 'can we afford it?' question you can also ask 'can we afford not to do it?' and in this case the answer is at the very least not simply 'no.'
- danans 6y ago> The big problem is what to do with all of it Which is why the primary way to deal with the CO2 problem isn't capture, but by reducing the amount emitted in the first place, via renewables + storage, more and better mass transit, EVs replacing ICEVs, heat pumps replacing furnaces, etc. Compared to the CO2 reduction potential o