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I've only heard that carbon sequestration is essentially a waste of time. Also thinking systemically we need to do more than address just carbon. Carbon is curr

I've only heard that carbon sequestration is essentially a waste of time. Also thinking systemically we need to do more than address just carbon. Carbon is currently the primary focus, probably because it can be financialized, but we need to take basically every system we have and ensure it has useable outputs like natural systems do.

regularfry 3y ago
There are no practical carbon-capture storage technologies. I'm aware of at least one project by major engineering firms into actually implementing it - a serious attempt, by serious, experienced engineers, to make it work - that ended recently after years of effort with a final report that basically said "This doesn't work. Here's why..." It's useful to the energy firms to keep the promise of CCS alive, but even if you have perfect capture at the point of generation, the problem of actually keeping it sequestered at any useful scale is unsolved.
- myshpa 3y ago
  The best CO2 sequestration technologies we have are soils, forests, plankton and seagrass. Unfortunately, all of them are being impacted by the effects of (mostly animal) agriculture and the fishing industry. Act accordingly. https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/04/improving-farming-soil-carbon-store-global-heating-target https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/04/improvin... Improving soil could keep world within 1.5C heating target, research suggests - better farming techniques across the world could lead to storage of 31 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide a year, data shows https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/65/3/302/784343 https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/65/3/302/784343 Effects of climate and overfishing on zooplankton dynamics and ecosystem structure: regime shifts, trophic cascade, and feedback loops in a simple ecosystem https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/seagrass-ocean-secret-weapon-climate-change-180976235/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/seagrass-ocean...

regularfry 3y ago

There are no practical carbon-capture storage technologies. I'm aware of at least one project by major engineering firms into actually implementing it - a serious attempt, by serious, experienced engineers, to make it work - that ended recently after years of effort with a final report that basically said "This doesn't work. Here's why..." It's useful to the energy firms to keep the promise of CCS alive, but even if you have perfect capture at the point of generation, the problem of actually keeping it sequestered at any useful scale is unsolved.

myshpa 3y ago
The best CO2 sequestration technologies we have are soils, forests, plankton and seagrass. Unfortunately, all of them are being impacted by the effects of (mostly animal) agriculture and the fishing industry. Act accordingly. https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/04/improving-farming-soil-carbon-store-global-heating-target https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/04/improvin... Improving soil could keep world within 1.5C heating target, research suggests - better farming techniques across the world could lead to storage of 31 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide a year, data shows https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/65/3/302/784343 https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/65/3/302/784343 Effects of climate and overfishing on zooplankton dynamics and ecosystem structure: regime shifts, trophic cascade, and feedback loops in a simple ecosystem https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/seagrass-ocean-secret-weapon-climate-change-180976235/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/seagrass-ocean...