Love your work, Tycho. And yes, I've been following the work of the Foundation for Climate Restoration which holds to an aim of restoring atmospheric CO2 and ghgs to pre-industrial levels. While the foundation is a society group, they are in conversation with any number of experts in fields that can create atmospheric draw down. They define three primary measurables to get the job done: permanent removal of CO2 (>100years), scalability i.e solution is able to scale up to gigatones of removal; and financiability i.e the solution itself creates an economic stimulus, a profit. For example Blue Planet Systems have been making commercial synthetic limestone concrete since 2021. https://foundationforclimaterestoration.org/resources/what-is-climate-restoration/https://www.blueplanetsystems.com/ Meanwhile we need to do massive ecosystem restoration to replenish the ecological resources of the planet for our own flourishing future and there is much science indicating the degree to which such activity would reduce global temperature and weather chaos in the short term and reduce GHG's in the long term. At the interface of atmospheric and ecosystem restorations lies the possibility of using the farming of bamboo and other quick growing and harvestable organics in the manufacture of biochar for permanent sequestration.
And all the people I have been in conversation agree that al this is based on that FF emission are reduced to as near gross zero as we can get as quickly as we can get, and the goal for 2050 is still the most rapid workable goal anyone can reckon. Of course the pressures of providing dividends to investors creates a resistance from that FF industry to move profit into alternative investment. And no-one wants to move until the other 'guy' does, which is why government policy that makes everyone move together is so important.
Thanks for the comment, Owen. Indeed, the FF industry needs the government to create a new level playing field so that innovation towards emission-free energy becomes economically viable. As I said in my post, the industry seems ready to play ball as long as the same rules apply to all players.
Love your work, Tycho. And yes, I've been following the work of the Foundation for Climate Restoration which holds to an aim of restoring atmospheric CO2 and ghgs to pre-industrial levels. While the foundation is a society group, they are in conversation with any number of experts in fields that can create atmospheric draw down. They define three primary measurables to get the job done: permanent removal of CO2 (>100years), scalability i.e solution is able to scale up to gigatones of removal; and financiability i.e the solution itself creates an economic stimulus, a profit. For example Blue Planet Systems have been making commercial synthetic limestone concrete since 2021. https://foundationforclimaterestoration.org/resources/what-is-climate-restoration/ https://www.blueplanetsystems.com/ Meanwhile we need to do massive ecosystem restoration to replenish the ecological resources of the planet for our own flourishing future and there is much science indicating the degree to which such activity would reduce global temperature and weather chaos in the short term and reduce GHG's in the long term. At the interface of atmospheric and ecosystem restorations lies the possibility of using the farming of bamboo and other quick growing and harvestable organics in the manufacture of biochar for permanent sequestration.
And all the people I have been in conversation agree that al this is based on that FF emission are reduced to as near gross zero as we can get as quickly as we can get, and the goal for 2050 is still the most rapid workable goal anyone can reckon. Of course the pressures of providing dividends to investors creates a resistance from that FF industry to move profit into alternative investment. And no-one wants to move until the other 'guy' does, which is why government policy that makes everyone move together is so important.
Thanks for the comment, Owen. Indeed, the FF industry needs the government to create a new level playing field so that innovation towards emission-free energy becomes economically viable. As I said in my post, the industry seems ready to play ball as long as the same rules apply to all players.