One of the things my own research group is working on is to make CO2 useful as a building block for starting materials that we need in society, to address this. It's called circular chemistry and is already being researched quite a bit. Carbon capture is another one.Show Image(https://i.imgur.com/UzALKpm.gif)
Global heating problem.
Even if we solved the energy problem TODAY, we still have a CO2 and Methane DEBT. This stuff is already in the atmosphere, it will continue to drive heating for the next 100 years.
One of the things my own research group is working on is to make CO2 useful as a building block for starting materials that we need in society, to address this. It's called circular chemistry and is already being researched quite a bit. Carbon capture is another one.Show Image(https://i.imgur.com/UzALKpm.gif)
Global heating problem.
Even if we solved the energy problem TODAY, we still have a CO2 and Methane DEBT. This stuff is already in the atmosphere, it will continue to drive heating for the next 100 years.
Wile.E. Coyote idea.
the visible spectrum
It's simple. We block out the sun.
Heat is mostly a function of the infrared, and it seems that it is the best and most expensive mirrors that reflect infrared most reliably.I hadn't even bothered to dig that far as the the idea is just preposterous.
The fact that this is still at an academic stage means it's not close to completion. Most people forget that we are dependent on fossil fuels for a lot more than just our cars though; plastics and many other chemical compounds and building blocks are derived from petroleum and coal, including things like agricultural pesticides (carbaryl for example is wholly coal-derived). It is industrially funded and people are serious about it, though. One of my friends works in a chemical company that produces "green" pesticides.One of the things my own research group is working on is to make CO2 useful as a building block for starting materials that we need in society, to address this. It's called circular chemistry and is already being researched quite a bit. Carbon capture is another one.Show Image(https://i.imgur.com/UzALKpm.gif)
Global heating problem.
Even if we solved the energy problem TODAY, we still have a CO2 and Methane DEBT. This stuff is already in the atmosphere, it will continue to drive heating for the next 100 years.
What are your optimistic projections Chyros ??
The main pushback on Direct Capture, is that it's too slow and expensive.
We need 700-1400 Terawatts worth of cooling, to balance the budget.
We only generate ~18 Terawatts of energy net as mankind.
At best if we dedicate 2 Terawatts of our budget TO COOLING, the investment to cooling has to be roughly 1000:1
Tp4 not Xpurt lvl yet. Highly recommend you guys actually watch the video, it addresses many of the concerns posed thus far.
plastics and many other chemical compounds and building blocks are derived from petroleum and coal
Heat is mostly a function of the infrared, and it seems that it is the best and most expensive mirrors that reflect infrared most reliably.