Formerly David Roberts at Vox, he has been independent for a couple years now via substack and podcasts. (in the last few years he has both wrist surgery and cancer so he is doing more audio even if he prefers writing)
Well he tracks all the ways new techs are coming on the market to reduce green house gases, including all the fancy stuff with concrete which still does CO2 but a whole lot less of it. Or using the same tech we use to drill for oil to create artificial geo thermal wells to get heat / steam energy from the earth crust. So on and so on.
His daddy was a cop, and this man David Roberts is a former libertarian, and he earnestly believes we can tech innovate around this, yet things have to change to do that. One has to build all this new stuff, and the new stuff will be better for us in the long term but it will cost money for a few years before it pays for itself (much like new cars do not pay for themselves, you gotta ride them into the ground, but there is a point in a cars life you are throwing money into a car that has 300,000 miles on it and it is time to move on.)
I am familiar with the technology to produce cement while limiting carbon dioxide emissions. The unfortunate issue is China is the biggest producer and India is not far behind. Will they spend the money on the new tech? Will China stop using coal to heat the rushed limestone? No one knows.
I personally believe the answers lie with new tech rather than increasing laws and regulations. But supporting restrictive laws and bans make it so much easier to virtue signal.
*MySmiley*
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Ghostbusters, by Ray Parker Jr.
- 20/03/2024 11:52:36 PM
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