Re:Ask HN: IT jobs fighting against climate catastrophe?
by marcosdumay on Monday March 01, 2021 @08:18AM
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> In some areas like cement the only option seems to be carbon capture and storage. There's no way whatsoever that a cement plant + a ccs plant is cheaper than a cement plant alone.
Yet, improving the cement plant and the carbon capture one makes it much easier for a government to intervene and require zero emissions.
We'll get aviation and steel production to use synthetic fuels in due time, and we will have plastics produced from captured CO2. Yes, those are more expensive, but nobody is saying that the solution should be left entirely to the market. But neither of them make any sense right now, and that's because the technology isn't there.
Yet, improving the cement plant and the carbon capture one makes it much easier for a government to intervene and require zero emissions.
We'll get aviation and steel production to use synthetic fuels in due time, and we will have plastics produced from captured CO2. Yes, those are more expensive, but nobody is saying that the solution should be left entirely to the market. But neither of them make any sense right now, and that's because the technology isn't there.