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Hopefully not, as including fossil fuel industries in “climate tech” would be very disingenuous.
by seattle_spring 4y ago
Hopefully not, as including fossil fuel industries in “climate tech” would be very disingenuous.
- prepend 4y agoIf the goal is reducing carbon emissions, then replacing coal with LNG seems like a move in the right direction. Maybe “cleaner tech” is a better label.
- cinntaile 4y agoI think climate tech is fine, as long as it's an improvement over the status quo. It's a marketing term anyway.
- fungi 4y agomore fossil fuels are incompatible with 1.5c target https://www.carbonbrief.org/new-fossil-fuels-incompatible-with-1-5c-goal-comprehensive-analysis-finds/ https://www.carbonbrief.org/new-fossil-fuels-incompatible-wi... at this point they simply must stay in the ground
- flavius29663 4y agogas is emitting half of CO2 than coal, it's also much cleaner: coal emits heavy metals and radioactivity when burned. Gas also enables a higher penetration of renewables. We won't get to zero emissions in the next 10 years, but we can get to zero emissions for days on end, because of gas plants.
- danhor 4y agoGas emits less CO2, but when it leaks it's much worse (Methane) so in the United States it's not far off in the normal pipeline network. In most countries we're not close to a penetration of renewables that significantly profit from the flexilibilty of gas. Thus building new gas infra isn't really helping. If storage (not just batteries) pans out the way we're hoping, gas can just be skipped. If not, it can be built quickly.
- algoatecorn 4y agoNat gas ain't going anywhere. Optimizing it further should be considered ClimateTech.
- twblalock 4y agoSwitching over to natural gas from worse fuels, which has been enabled by fracking, is responsible for most of the emissions reductions that have happened in the past decade.