High-tech market analysts used to say that anything you can actually buy is obsolete. In the Global Warming fight every plan is necessarily obsolete before it is published, whether from newer technologies or failures of imagination. At one time, the engineers at Stanford in The Solutions Project were way, way, out ahead of governments worldwide, but now their wildest imaginings/best calculations look pitiful as technology advances by leaps and bounds. Rooftop solar, offshore wind, and geothermal energy are booming far beyond our previous notions. Concentrating solar and nuclear energy are dying. Fossil carbon is peaking and going into terminal decline. Denial and obstruction have not died, but every year more of their talking points become irrelevant and they have to think of new bogosities to try to sell to government, business, and the public. Outside of the MAGA bubble all of them have in reality noticed that
Renewables = $$Real Money$$TM
But the main point remains totally true. However you slice the technology pie, renewables are growing in the exponential part of the market development curve, so that we have no excuse for failing to reach 100% renewables before 2050.
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The pie keeps getting SO MUCH bigger!
We recently looked at climate geoengineering proposals for mining a few teratons of reactive minerals to crush and use as fertilizer, so that they could combine with CO2 to form stable carbonates and take a teraton of carbon out of the air and oceans. Here is a different version, taking advantage of the basalt already exposed on the bottom of the global ocean. This company calls it Solid Carbon. It is not pure carbon, but it is definitely solid, and stable on a geological scale. Now we need to compare costs at scale.
2/🪨“Solid Carbon has the potential to leverage the world’s largest reservoir for #CO2 sequestration, ocean basalt, to combat the #ClimateCrisis & lay the foundation for a #Canadian-led sustainable solution.”
💬@katemoran.bsky.social, ONC CEO+President & Solid Carbon PI
The Solid Carbon: The Ocean’s Rock-solid Sociotechnical Climate Solution was among six initiatives awarded funding under the NFRF’s Transformation stream, which supports large-scale Canadian-led interdisciplinary research with the potential to realize real and lasting change for major challenges.
Ocean basalt has a unique capacity to address current increasing emission levels by permanently and safely storing carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the sub-seafloor as rock. Basalt is found all over the world’s ocean floor and reacts with CO₂ to mineralize, over short periods of time.
An area of sea-floor basalt 200 kilometres off the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, has been extensively studied by the Solid Carbon team through previous eight years feasibility studies, laboratory experiments and modelling most recently funded by the UVic hosted and led Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions.
“Solid Carbon will utilize ONC’s world-leading subsea cabled infrastructure off the coast of Vancouver Island as part of this research experiment, enabling 24/7 real-time monitoring that will be publicly accessible through the Internet,” says Moran. “The ongoing development of CDR technology has the potential to transform Canadian industry as we transition away from fossil fuels towards building a diverse, equitable blue economy and climate industry.”
Global energy-related CO₂ emissions reached a new record high of 37.4 billion tonnes (Gt) in 2023. Accessible ocean basalt regions have an estimated overall carbon removal potential upwards of tens of thousands of Gt of CO₂ using the Solid Carbon technology under development.
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I have never used the expression wow before, but WOW. Let this be an example and inspiration to others. #solarenergy #green #environment #globalwarming #savetheplanet [image or embed]
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