Even if programs like these partially backfire, it’s just nice that they’re trying, you know? All we have in the West is lunatic start-ups whose pitch is to darken the skies and bring about eternal winter.
We also have carbon capture where their plan to become profitable is to sell the concentrated carbon pucks as fuel.
We do? Like actually operating?
Nothing at scale (because IIRC it isn’t actually possible), but there are a few I’ve heard of over the years. Here’s a recent thing out of Cambridge that’s very proof of concept, obviously, but still focused on the idea of using captured carbon rather than actually sequestering it. On a similar note, the oil and gas sector wants to pump captured carbon dioxide into oil reservoirs to store it and entirely coincidentally get more oil out.
They’re all for-profit businesses, so the focus is on making money first, and “maybe actually do something to mitigate the damage caused by climate change” is a distant second.
But at what cost
Its crazy taking a train across Xinjiang and seeing the scale of it all.
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I remember reading an article long ago about planting trees & climate change & how doing this does not automatically equate to the benefits intended. Dont remember if water was mentioned but its interesting they are finding out what this does & will have to think carefully about the regreening efforts made.
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that’s so cool. the water cycle and the general interconnectedness of earths systems are so impressive to me
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