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That's a fat big POV that very few will take seriously. Being carbon neutral absolutely incentivizes green energy. Making up a wall of insurmountable demands th
by random314 5y ago
That's a fat big POV that very few will take seriously. Being carbon neutral absolutely incentivizes green energy. Making up a wall of insurmountable demands that very few people in this world, except hunter gatherers, can possibly meet does not help but hurts efforts towards CO2 reduction.
Carbon neutrality works by subsidizing the costs of reducing carbon emissions at source. Trying to shit on that makes you regressive, not progressive.
- fulafel 5y agoLet's not get too emotional about things and keep to the HN guidelines. I do understand and somewhat agree with the "perfect is the enemy of good" thinking, but it's still good to be aware and keep outselves honest about the difference between them. The marginal CO2 perspective is in fact an establilished thing in the industry, see eg [1] [2]. Regarding "insurmountable demands", not sure what you're referring to here, the discussion was about whether there are significant indirect co2 & environmental costs to "carbon neutral" electricity as defined by Google, which I argued there are. [1] https://www.nwcouncil.org/energy/marginal-carbon-dioxide-production-rates-of-the-nw-power-systemdraft-for-comment https://www.nwcouncil.org/energy/marginal-carbon-dioxide-pro... [2] https://www.tmrow.com/blog/marginal-carbon-intensity-of-electricity-with-machine-learning/ https://www.tmrow.com/blog/marginal-carbon-intensity-of-elec...