silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years agoDeSantis Rejected $350 Million in Climate Funding Before Hurricane Idalia | Now his state is suffering from a storm fueled by climate change.newrepublic.comexternal-linkmessage-square33linkfedilinkarrow-up1369arrow-down16
arrow-up1363arrow-down1external-linkDeSantis Rejected $350 Million in Climate Funding Before Hurricane Idalia | Now his state is suffering from a storm fueled by climate change.newrepublic.comsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square33linkfedilink
minus-squareMisterDlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoIf they would extract heat from the air or even the water, it would actually help. Not by leaps and bounds but it would at least be carbon negative.
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoNot to any meaningful degree: the heating from CO2 emitted when your burn coal for energy is about 100000x more than the heat produced from the burning. That’s why the big action which needs to happen is to stop burning fossil fuels.
minus-squareMisterDlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoI was thinking about heat pumps. 300% efficiency They are electric and could be carbon negative depending on the source of electricity
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoUnless it’s BECCS, the best they’re going to be is not adding CO2 to the atmosphere. That’s better than burning stuff, but not actually removing CO2
If they would extract heat from the air or even the water, it would actually help. Not by leaps and bounds but it would at least be carbon negative.
Not to any meaningful degree: the heating from CO2 emitted when your burn coal for energy is about 100000x more than the heat produced from the burning.
That’s why the big action which needs to happen is to stop burning fossil fuels.
I was thinking about heat pumps. 300% efficiency
They are electric and could be carbon negative depending on the source of electricity
Unless it’s BECCS, the best they’re going to be is not adding CO2 to the atmosphere. That’s better than burning stuff, but not actually removing CO2