WetEV
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Peak oil might have just happened.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-peak-oil-era-is-suddenly-upon-us/
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-peak-oil-era-is-suddenly-upon-us/
I'm actually encouraged. We are very good at creating global scale industrial plant. And that's what it will take. With the right technology and incentives, we can turn this thing around much faster than most appreciate. We are not looking at the end of the world as we know it. We are faced with some daunting challenges that will take concerted, long-term effort. And yes, those efforts will need to be structured so as to mitigate the effects of all those folks who rely on the current status quo for their livelihoods. There's no escaping that either.
LeftieBiker said:I'm actually encouraged. We are very good at creating global scale industrial plant. And that's what it will take. With the right technology and incentives, we can turn this thing around much faster than most appreciate. We are not looking at the end of the world as we know it. We are faced with some daunting challenges that will take concerted, long-term effort. And yes, those efforts will need to be structured so as to mitigate the effects of all those folks who rely on the current status quo for their livelihoods. There's no escaping that either.
The problems are that we aren't doing this, and to do it would require infrastructure on a vast scale. It's easier to avoid putting the carbon into the air in the first place than it is to remove it in the volumes requires to reverse global warming. That isn't to say that atmospheric carbon extraction has no place in our toolkit, just that it's a tool that may not be actually there and usable until it's far too late to prevent catastrophe...
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