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Climate change is easily the biggest impact a single human can have on improving the world today. Unfortunately the economics don't always work out, but with th
by t_mann 4y ago
Climate change is easily the biggest impact a single human can have on improving the world today. Unfortunately the economics don't always work out, but with the same amount that Musk offered to buy Twitter we should be able to fund a pretty massive Manhattan project for CO2 removal.
- unlikelymordant 4y agoMusk has put 100million (i think that was the number?) Toward the carbon removal xprize, which is a good start.
- leesec 4y agoHe also started the most successful electric vehicle car company spurring on the rest of the auto industry to electrify.
- tslocum 4y agoOver half of electricity in the US is generated using fossil fuels. Until that changes, what you describe is simply replacing one method of burning fossil fuels with another. Source: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-in-the-us.php https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...
- unlikelymordant 4y agoElectric vehicles are 6 times more efficient than internal combustion, so even using coal fired electricity to charge them is a win https://evquotient.substack.com/p/how-evs-are-by-far-the-most-efficient https://evquotient.substack.com/p/how-evs-are-by-far-the-mos... It also allows for a transition to more renewables in the grid over time.
- verdverm 4y agoThe US government has way more money than that. Imagine if we could find peace... we'd have trillions of dollars to spend on solutions. We (the world) have already sent more money and aid to Ukraine than Musk bid on Twitter.
- twic 4y agoEspecially if the single human has a lot of ants: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ants-may-boost-co2-absorption-enough-to-slow-global-warming/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ants-may-boost-co...