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It's annoying that there seems to be rather promising technological approaches, which don't even require a lot of political will - and yet we don't seem to see
by avmich 3y ago
It's annoying that there seems to be rather promising technological approaches, which don't even require a lot of political will - and yet we don't seem to see them applied at a needed scale, or getting there.
A close approach seems to be taken by Terraform Industries - in a sense of scale. Just like Elon Musk repeats that SpaceX doesn't build rockets as much as it buildы a proper rocket industry, Casey Handmer at https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/climate-tech-checklist/ https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/climate-tech-c... demonstrates good attention to scale. A BOTE calculations showed that if we have a billion m^3/s of air cleaned from CO2, we'd reduce CO2 in atmosphere twice as fast as we're adding CO2 there. A unit which handles 1 m3/s - given rather simple goal - doesn't look too expensive, and Earth already has a billion personal automobiles, so technically speaking we should be able to have some progress.
We need to pay enough attention to the urgency of the situation, the solutions should really scale.