Climate Engineers Sucking Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere

Re:Climate Engineers Sucking Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere by adrianN on Thursday September 07, 2017 @11:41AM (#15192861)

I'm of course in favor of any solution that allows us to do less damage, but I think it's unlikely that we'll figure something out that allows us to continue burning fossil fuels at the rate we're currently doing. Doing both, reducing our reliance on fossil fuels, and figuring out methods for undoing what damage we can seems to me to be the best strategy.

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Re:Climate Engineers Sucking Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere by atemerev on Thursday September 07, 2017 @11:51AM (#15192957)

Fossil fuels will last quite a long time. CO2, however, seems to be a greater problem.

Nuclear energy has nearly zero carbon footprint, though. With the closed nuclear cycle (breeders) uranium will last for millions of years.

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Re:Climate Engineers Sucking Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere by adrianN on Thursday September 07, 2017 @02:20PM (#15194428)

Now you only need to convince everybody that nuclear power isn't literally the devil. And I guess you'll need some taxes to pay for the CO2 scrubbers.

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