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Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air by svara on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @01:52PM (#38015840)
We'll need to remove CO_2 from the atmosphere on a massive scale.

Both the low and intermediate IPCC scenarios, SSP1-2.6 and SSP- 2-4.5, rely on it. It will be essential to keep our planet recognizable by 2100.

Luckily the jittery/cyclic output of renewables is ideal for this. In the grand scheme of things it also solves the storage issue to a large degree, since massive overbuilding of (peak) capacity is necessary.

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Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @07:42PM (#38019806)
> Both the low and intermediate IPCC scenarios, SSP1-2.6 and SSP- 2-4.5, rely on it.

This is a huge issue that people do not understand, there is currently no plan for this CO2 removal and I was horrified when I realised that all our climate projections assume that a massive industry will just spring into existence

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