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> Maybe the commenter does not share the opinion that climate change should be addressed by reducing emissions. There really isn't any other way to address cli
by sampo 4y ago
> Maybe the commenter does not share the opinion that climate change should be addressed by reducing emissions.
There really isn't any other way to address climate change than by reducing emissions.
- madsbuch 4y agoThere is a plethora of alternatives. Synthetic fuels and nuclear energy are well established. bio-fuels is another alternative (though it might not scale).
- sampo 4y ago> Synthetic fuels and nuclear energy are well established. Yes, and they reduce CO2 emissions.
- madsbuch 4y agoHow? A kg of fuel should have roughly the same CO2 emission regardless of how it is produced? The thing it that synthetic fuels are cyclic. We collect the emitted CO2 again.
- sampo 4y ago> How? Like this: > The thing it that synthetic fuels are cyclic. We collect the emitted CO2 again.
- madsbuch 4y agoYes, you are focusing on the entire life cycle. This is a bad argument, as you can employ the same argument with fossil fuels. Fuels emit CO2. we can produce fuels by sequestration.
- sampo 4y ago> as you can employ the same argument with fossil fuels No you can't. "Let's burn oil/gas/coal and then re-capture all the CO2 back" is not something that you can do feasibly, economically, and at scale.