Carbon neutral and CO2 emissions, etc

bennty
Mon, 06 Sep 2021 22:20:29 +0000

A quick note to say that BB’s objection here seems to be that the description of the problems with CO2 recycling/reuse has to do with the very fuzzy approach, which is definitely not how chemists would describe these things in conversation, and is a sort of 100/20-vision picture that can allow nonscientists to get a sense of the problems involved. (Anyone who knows better will wince at these descriptions, but you’ll also hear them from scientists who’re trying to communicate.) Funded carbon recycling projects are part of my work and have been for several years, so if you’d like a more scientific view, or would just like to discuss, please just DM. Happy to talk at much greater length/specificity.

And BB, you might want to give that screed another go! Lots in there is to do with the resource-intensiveness of how we live and what we might do about it, also how we might work on it now that we’ve got so much time back to ourselves, rather than with electron-herding.