Sequestering carbon dioxide, aka carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is an important topic in today’s world of climate change mitigation. Here’s an article, submitted by 2GreenEnergy supporter Cameron Atwood, that promotes the concept of pumping CO2 into rock formations and …
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Capturing Carbon Dioxide Directly
Here’s another piece on capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air (DAC). As I’ve said, I find this subject impossible to take seriously; it’s even harder to conceive than carbon capture and sequestration CCS, for several reasons: The apparatus that …
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Environmental Catastrophe Affects Us Disproportionately
A business-as-usual approach to our planet’s environment means that unprecedented levels of suffering will be visited upon a huge percentage of the world’s population. Decent people see this as morally unacceptable, given that the technology exists to avert a great …
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U.S. Army: ‘Climate Change Immediate Threat to National Security,’ Releases Plan
In preparation for the chapter on national security in my first book, Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies, I interviewed James Woolsey, former director of the CIA. As I predicted, he was adamant about the need to mitigate and adapt to climate …
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Bill Gates and Climate Change
I work out at the local YMCA, which unfortunately was founded by a wealthy Republican, and thus, on the way to my favorite machines, I have walk by a set of televisions, one of which always shows Fox News. As …
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A Better Planet
From Clint Eastwood: People say that we must leave a better planet to our children. The truth is that we must leave better children to our planet. I would say that both are true. Of course, as a true right-winger, …
Why Is It So Hard to Mitigate Climate Change?
According to the meme here, the answer is that ignoring the problem is so much easier, and there are so many distractions, the British monarchy amongst them.
Concrete and CO2
The fellow sitting next to me on a plane-ride this morning was a magnet for information on renewable energy and environmental sustainability more generally. He wanted to know things that most people struggle with, e.g., if CO2 is a gas, …
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Love What’s Soon Going to Be in Short Supply
In one of his sonnets, Shakespeare wrote, and I paraphrase, “Love that which you’ll soon be leaving.” It sounds like he was referring to our very lives. (Aren’t we all leaving them?) But, according to experts, he was talking about …
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Heatwaves and Climate Change
The heatwaves that are traveling around the planet are reminding many of us what this planet will be like to live on in another 50 years. Perhaps they’re precipitating global action before it’s too late.
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