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Decarbonizing doesn't mean not using oil, it means not releasing CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, correct? This seems to be more about movin
by tgsovlerkhgsel 4y ago
Decarbonizing doesn't mean not using oil, it means not releasing CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, correct?
This seems to be more about moving manufacturing to use renewable electricity sources, which should be pretty easy (just get a different contract and pay slightly more).
- notacop31337 4y agoDecarbonising means moving away from sources of energy with extreme levels of CO2 output. I like your thought on this, but it really is not that simple, however great it would be if it was. You get into issues of energy density very quickly, and hard industries requires lots of heat, which the conversion rate for electricity is very inefficient, necessitating other forms of energy source. It's nowhere near as simple as just "switching provider", you can't smelt steel with solar power. For the big 5 products, steel, plastic, cement, ammonia and icantrememberthelastone, you have a bunch of processes that require energy densities that are fundamentally different to residential tier appliances etc that can be provided by solar, wind etc. And for some of these products, which are integral to worldwide economies, there really aren't feasible replacements.