Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky is moving from science fiction to reality

Re:Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky is moving from scie... by staunton on Sunday September 10, 2023 @06:09AM (#37454433)

This assumes that what people pay for power is determined by how much it costs to produce. That's already not the case in most countries. Energy prices are determined by taxes and subsidies.

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Re:Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky is moving from scie... by AnthonyMouse on Sunday September 10, 2023 @10:25AM (#37456075)

You can install renewable energy at home. If it's cheap enough to overbuild by 3-5x and the grid is overcharging for it then people will do that instead, and then the grid ceases to operate in most places. There is a non-trivial possibility of that happening regardless if storage gets cheap enough, because local generation and storage would remove the cost of distribution and outcompete the grid.

But also, that's crazy. You have the chance to offer the world cheap renewable energy and you're going to not? What kind of misanthropic policy is that?

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