My point is, nature isn't in balance at all, it's just chaos. Nature has also produced plenty of unbalanced things like azolla cooling the planet in the Eocene from a tropical hothouse to what it is now, and early Cynabacteria potentially causing a complete snowball earth. The earth is also steadily cooling over time in its core like all planets, and eventually the planet will just freeze up and die like Mars. We'd be heading for a glacial period in the next 10,000 years, and if humanity has to face that problem the narrative will be that nature is chaos and we have to stabilise it to avoid catastrophic climate change. I don't know that you could describe natural processes entirely as a balance. Sorry for creating more questions than answers! This is again not tested at scale because Hydrogen is corrosive and while you can easily use it instead of natural gas for heating and cooking applications, transport and storage is a major issue. CO2 gets captured and stored thus creating a net-zero or negative CO2 balance. Or they can be use to generate biogas/ethanol which can be reacted with steam at pressure to generate Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide. One of the better ways of CCSS is to use it with Bioenergy to generate Hydrogen.Ĭrops capture Carbon which can then be burnt in (almost) net zero method of generating power. The not-so-great-part of it is that it will allow us to keep using Coal (please keep in mind that Coal is a cheap fuel that allows weaker economies to electrify and develop) so again the answer is not that straightforward. It just allows us to use existing technologies as a short to medium term solution while we gradually move to better technologies. carbon in the form of fuels) to setup the area for such a large scale plantation in the first place.Īlso, please remember that CCSS (or Carbon Capture Sequestration and Storage) is also just one part of the overall solution. Not only does that mess up biodiversity but also may often end up using more energy (i.e. Plus you cannot just plant trees anywhere you want. Firstly they are extremely ineffective as a carbon sink in a short period of time. Answering as someone who has worked in analysing the tech/economics and public policy related to Carbon Capture.
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