Re:Why Climate Change Won't Be Stopped (2018)
by rakoo on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:26PM
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We have carbon capture technologies, it's trees. Any man-made technology will be worse:
- It still needs energy to be built and to run, so it still (ultimately) depends on petrol to run. Petrol still emits CO2 and, more worryingly, conventional crude oil has peaked in 2008 and is in decline since then: https://damnthematrix.wordpress.com/2019/04/11/iea-2018-worl...
- At the scale we need to capture carbon, we start hitting other issues, namely the shortage of materials needed for building them
Unfortunately those technologies won't "solve" the problem, merely move the goalposts
- It still needs energy to be built and to run, so it still (ultimately) depends on petrol to run. Petrol still emits CO2 and, more worryingly, conventional crude oil has peaked in 2008 and is in decline since then: https://damnthematrix.wordpress.com/2019/04/11/iea-2018-worl...
- At the scale we need to capture carbon, we start hitting other issues, namely the shortage of materials needed for building them
Unfortunately those technologies won't "solve" the problem, merely move the goalposts