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Re:Europe Makes Shipping Vessels Pay for Carbon Emissions by Ygg2 on Friday December 02, 2022 @01:38PM (#33834759)
Not sure why you got downvoted.

Not emitting carbon is always going to be more effective than emitting then capturing carbon.

But most of green tech is a load of green washing (https://youtu.be/Zk11vI-7czE warning long video).

By most I mean non-nuclear, non hydro-electric.

Fact is that battery tech isn't up to task of high capacity highly reusable energy storage.

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Re:Europe Makes Shipping Vessels Pay for Carbon Emissions by bombcar on Friday December 02, 2022 @01:49PM (#33834942)
It's harder to police not emitting carbon, after all right now I'm not emitting five billion tons a second of carbon.

I also lack the ability to emit that much, but that's not a major issue. In general it's hard to pay for someone NOT doing something without it being scammed.

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Re:Europe Makes Shipping Vessels Pay for Carbon Emissions by Ygg2 on Friday December 02, 2022 @02:01PM (#33835111)
Then tax every m3 emitted.

Sure it will be passed to consumer but there aren't any good alternatives tbh.

Or just don't do anything and pray you aren't destroyed by climate change.

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