Phil Henshaw wrote: > The co2/$ ratio for total economic product (economic > efficiency) can only be reduced toward a positive limit and not toward > zero (real 2nd law). > If automobiles all used advanced batteries and only electric motors, and heating/cooling systems used only electricity, and all electricity came from generation facilities that did not output CO2, then what's the problem? The issues with accumulated CO2 are still there no matter what policies for energy use are adopted. Both stopping the output of huge amounts of CO2 and sequestering the debt seem reasonable to cast as technology issues.
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