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The energy required for carbon capture is larger than the all energy produced by burning fossil fuels over the past 100 years (00100 years?). It's not literally
by gizmo 3y ago
The energy required for carbon capture is larger than the all energy produced by burning fossil fuels over the past 100 years (00100 years?). It's not literally impossible, but energy would have to be "too cheap to meter" for it to be even worth thinking about.
In a world with unlimited energy (green or not) the problems caused by global warming are no longer that big of a deal. Neither are the other problems the world faces today. Unlimited energy results in, more or less, unlimited prosperity.
- kragen 3y agoyour figures on carbon capture energy costs are incorrect, because we don't have to reduce the carbon dioxide back to carbon to sequester it your conception of human nature may also be unrealistic; unlimited warfare is another possible result of unlimited energy
- scythe 3y agoCurrently the DoE or some other USG agency has been doing a lot of modeling of just pumping CO2 into underground caverns. (It was in Physics Today.)
- selimthegrim 3y agoWas this it?https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/76/7/22/2900205/Capture-alone-isn-t-sufficient-to-bottle-up-carbon https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/76/7/22/2900205/Ca...