Catching CO2 from trucks and reducing their emissions by 90%

Re:Catching CO2 from trucks and reducing their emissions by 90% by Taniwha on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @05:08AM (#21877876)

Well because it's 90 percent efficient vehicles will emit 10% the amount of CO2, but the thing is all the CO2 eventually gets emitted, just more slowly. That might be ok if we weren't already at the world's carrying capacity for CO2, instead we need to be drastically reducing our emissions this is just an expensive stopgap measure that keeps us digging up carbon.

As others have pointed out we're not just burning the Amazon, we are burning all the Amazons back through geological time.

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Re:Catching CO2 from trucks and reducing their emissions by 90% by on_and_off on Friday December 27, 2019 @12:59AM (#21889535)

>As others have pointed out we're not just burning the Amazon, we are burning all the Amazons back through geological time.

I agree 100% and it disturbs me very deeply, along with the hundreds of other insane things going on these days, climate grief is definitely a good way to describe how many people feel about the magnitude of these issues.

>but the thing is all the CO2 eventually gets emitted, just more slowly

Not necessarily, we could (and should) sequester CO2.

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