BackupRainDancer

@BackupRainDancer@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US just invested more than $1 billion into carbon removal / The move represents a big step in the effort to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere—and slow down climate change.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, however as much as I wish our governments would do both - they won’t. At least not This is why I said we should be playing money ball. I don’t disagree with anything you said.

  I think the additionallity to the grid as these renewables come online is great…but if they only cover the energy to run them then they’re not expanding the grid for everyone else. This emissions continue. I agree it incentvizes renewable builds but only if it powers more of the grid vs just being dedicated to the wells.

  We’re headed towards a world where corps are incentvizes to buy up all the clean energy on the market and leave consumers with the fossile fuels right now. We just don’t have enough clean or renewable energy to power everything and demand is only increasing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US just invested more than $1 billion into carbon removal / The move represents a big step in the effort to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere—and slow down climate change.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed! I was just mentioning the only negative angle I could see, still a net positive!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US just invested more than $1 billion into carbon removal / The move represents a big step in the effort to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere—and slow down climate change.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We are not beyond the emissions reduction stage and will not be until the grid is 100% renewable or other emissions free energy powered.

  Switching to clean energy is emissions reduction. Imo should be our #1 priority because we’re not reducing power demand without massive societal change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US just invested more than $1 billion into carbon removal / The move represents a big step in the effort to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere—and slow down climate change.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Amen, only angle I can see someone disagreeing with is trees becoming a potential bank of carbon to be fed back into the atmosphere via fuel for wildfires.

  I so wish there were better ways to control forest fires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US just invested more than $1 billion into carbon removal / The move represents a big step in the effort to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere—and slow down climate change.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  From an industry standpoint everything the article says at the end as a critique is correct. We should be playing moneyball, those fans that draw in the particles would be an additional toll on the power grid.

  Instead spend the money on removing the emission sources and modernizing our grid/reducing fuel emissions. After weve exhausted low hanging fruit there we’ll have to throw money at offset tech.

  I suppose we’ll have to get the tech made eventually but there’s just so much to be reworked on our grids as is.