RE: Last Non-winter
April 3, 2020 at 4:36 pm
(This post was last modified: April 3, 2020 at 4:41 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
I haven’t seen any hard figures on the energy costs of recycled energy, but it strikes me as a good idea all the same. Two options:
1. There are x particles of carbon in the atmosphere. We can continue burning fossil fuels at the current rate of increase, and make x an ever-larger number.
2. We can remove some of those particles, turn them into fuel, and burn that. This would seem to have the result of either stabilizing the value of x or (at the very least) slowing the rate of increase.
Doesn’t seem to be the worst idea. It’s kind of like sourdough starter. If you keep feeding it without discarding any, you’re going to end up with an awful mess. If you do the discarding (or at least bake a lot), things are much more manageable.
Boru
1. There are x particles of carbon in the atmosphere. We can continue burning fossil fuels at the current rate of increase, and make x an ever-larger number.
2. We can remove some of those particles, turn them into fuel, and burn that. This would seem to have the result of either stabilizing the value of x or (at the very least) slowing the rate of increase.
Doesn’t seem to be the worst idea. It’s kind of like sourdough starter. If you keep feeding it without discarding any, you’re going to end up with an awful mess. If you do the discarding (or at least bake a lot), things are much more manageable.
Boru
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