Huge "regreening" efforts in China over the past few decades have activated the country's water cycle and moved water in ways that scientists are just now starting to understand.
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.
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.
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.