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Re:What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil? by TheSpiceIsLife on Sunday July 26, 2020 @06:56AM (#23956105)
You mean we make end-users pay for it.

But your wider point stands: behavioural change via financial incentives.

Re:What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil? by comicjk on Sunday July 26, 2020 @10:22AM (#23957223)
In practice, both producers and consumers will pay, because demand for fossil fuels has some elasticity: higher prices mean lower sales. This yields an equilibrium at which consumers pay somewhat more, but also buy somewhat less, and producers eat some of the cost in terms of lower profits and lower value of their companies.
Re:What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil? by hurxnid on Sunday July 26, 2020 @07:58AM (#23956421)
Yep. Until it costs $4000 a month to heat your home people will not stop doing it.
Re:What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil? by fulafel on Sunday July 26, 2020 @08:13AM (#23956517)
There are many good ways of keeping homes warm without fossil fuels.

The projected cost of ccs is much less than $4000/mo even for a oil heated home though.

Re:What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil? by petre on Sunday July 26, 2020 @09:07AM (#23956791)
Yup. Nuclear. It works for France.

But now they closed down Fessenheim so more coal would be burned. Thank you Greens, thank you Hollande!

https://www.sustainability-times.com/expert/a-safe-and-profi...

Re:What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil? by Gwypaas on Sunday July 26, 2020 @08:36AM (#23956649)
Since these [0] work in Scandinavia heating will only ever be a problem you choose to have.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house

Re:What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil? by refurb on Sunday July 26, 2020 @11:09AM (#23957587)
Your article says those houses still need heating, just less than typical.
Re:What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil? by Gwypaas on Sunday July 26, 2020 @12:28PM (#23958184)
Rather little, and with district heating it's a non-issue. You can make it a "plus house", producing more energy than what it consumes using solar panels.

My point rather was that living in a really old badly insulated house or a place with horrendous building standards is a choice, and that has to cost something and not be what we aim for when alternatives are easily possible and has been for decades.