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The real answer is neither: Switch to mass transit as much as possible, and build nuclear reactors instead of natural gas plants. This would very quickly drop C
by _hypx 3y ago
The real answer is neither: Switch to mass transit as much as possible, and build nuclear reactors instead of natural gas plants. This would very quickly drop CO2 emissions even further and not involve any new technologies nor huge new supply requirements.
The problem with "purist" is that they're the classic example of letting the perfect defeat the good. In reality, they are anything but. They are arguably just greenwashing since their ideas don't scale.
- credit_guy 3y agoI'm with you there. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a nuclear renaissance, but it's not a guaranteed thing. Not by a mile. As for mass transit, how can you achieve that? That's a boring, but so difficult problem. If you take any mass transit from NYC you will not reach 60 miles in an hour. Most often you will not reach 40 miles in one hour. How do you fix that? And NYC is by far the most connected city in the country. What about the rest of the country? Fixing mass transportation in the US is an NP-hard problem.