Comments thadadkins has made

I second that, Matt

There are a number of more efficient ways to capture CO2 and use waste heat, as noted by the author.  Heating buildings or greenhouses or even just plain old water makes more sense than trying to drive a carbon capture process.  Why not focus our efforts on capturing the concentrated sources of CO2?  Better yet, lets focus our efforts on eliminating those concentrated point sources, and letting nature do the scrubbing.  

I suppose that's where the author was heading, envisioning a world with high atmospheric CO2 and no more emitting sources.  If that scenario ever plays out, however, I'd bet the game will be won.  If there's still a problem, we can then direct our resources toward such a proposal.  In the meantime, we are missing the even the low-hanging fruit.  Funding of this sort becomes a zero sum game,  with all the money for CCS (and now atmospheric collection?!) diverted from research for carbon "neutral" energy production.   On Potentially a long-term option for putting waste heat to use posted 1 year, 8 months ago 2 Responses

Interesting Take

So ce1907 seems to believe that we should blind ourselves to insignificant details like scientific data and anecdotal warning signs, and focus exclusively on the immediately obtainable.  While pragmatism can be a virtuous trait, its blind pursuit untethered from any frame of reference cannot prevent the world from burning.  It only allows the drivers of destruction to continue framing the debate.  

Articles like these seed the debate for change that leads to the votes in Congress.  Working people everywhere are beginning to realize the drastic predicament our policies have created.  As that trend snowballs, the political tide will change, and good policy just might squeeze through the chutes of Congress.  Without any idea of what constitutes good policy, we're bunting, when the solutions to climate change require a swing for the fence.  On Grandfathering is Robin Hood's evil twin posted 1 year, 10 months ago 13 Responses

You are so right

It was shocking to learn that it's going to take policy changes to combat climate change, but what an absolute relief that personal responsibility is actually part of the problem!  It makes me so angry that Live Earth organizers and others would pursue naive and misguided tactics to make people more aware of the impacts that their personal choices have.  Every time another consumer exercises a choice to minimize their impact through consumption reduction, these do-good jerks just give up entirely on the goal of effecting meaningful legislative changes.  I wouldn't doubt if this is perpetrated by the same folks who think voting actually makes a difference.  

Now that I know that my actions don't really make any difference, I can finally crank up my thermostat, buy the McMansion and the Hummer I've always wanted, and stop squinting because of these puny fluorescent bulbs.  I'm not screwing in anything under a hundred watts.  After that, I'm signing one of those climate change petitions, because that'll get those darned politicians to finally listen.  On Voluntary actions didn't get us civil rights, and they won't fix the climate posted 2 years, 2 months ago 61 Responses