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Your comment excites me for a moment. Could we effectively have made US carbon neutral with stimulus money alone?! Then I looked up a few numbers. At 20Bil a p
by therealdrag0 3y ago
Your comment excites me for a moment. Could we effectively have made US carbon neutral with stimulus money alone?!
Then I looked up a few numbers. At 20Bil a pop, 5Tril only gets you 250 reactors. US already has ~100 reactors, but that’s only 8% of our energy usage. So 2.5x that gets us fully off coal and 1/4 of our natural gas, and it doesn’t touch our oil usage at all. So we’d still be 50% fossilized. Sad.
This is Napkin math of course. But this shows how dang large a project we have left to do…
[0] Some numbers from here https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/data-and-statistics.php https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/data-and...