Re:What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil?
by hedora on Sunday July 26, 2020 @11:04AM
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CCS is more like paying someone to cleaning the streets in SF than having someone follow you around to clean up in case you decide to crap on the sidewalk.
Anyway, CCS is probably already economically viable because it is legal, and there’s no way large institutions will stop burning fossil fuels.
It would make more economic sense to transfer all of the oil subsidies to environmentally sustainable energy, but that’s politically impossible.
It’s no more likely than SF making it illegal to lock a bathroom, and simultaneously spending enough money for social services to reduce the homeless population.
Anyway, CCS is probably already economically viable because it is legal, and there’s no way large institutions will stop burning fossil fuels.
It would make more economic sense to transfer all of the oil subsidies to environmentally sustainable energy, but that’s politically impossible.
It’s no more likely than SF making it illegal to lock a bathroom, and simultaneously spending enough money for social services to reduce the homeless population.