• alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    Climate change has a relatively cheap and easy solution.

    Aresol sprays can buy a few decades of time if things get too hot.

    We already have cheap solar and cheap batteries are becoming a reality. We only need a cheap, non-intermittent energy source to provide baseload energy. Cheap nuclear power is possible and can fill that niche - we had the tech in the past and China has it today.

    For about $1T a fleet of reactors could be built to extract all the excess carbon from the atmosphere in 50 years, working in tandem with cheap solar energy and cheap batteries to power human civilization.

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      6 days ago

      Its even cheaper than your estimates…

      We just need to plant trees, and get our forests to grow again. Like, the earth has these fabulous organisms that clean greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere… And they are self-replicating!

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      6 days ago

      Are you under the delusion the climate disaster is confined solely to energy production?

      Also the laws of thermodynamics say that pulling all of that carbon out the air would be not only inefficient to the extreme and take centuries, it would also use far more energy than we currently produce ON THE PLANET.

      I have no idea where you got 50 years from, but that’s a joke. we couldn’t build the shit you would need to do it in 50 years.