Ken, Greg, list: First to Greg (re just earlier message) - I recognized CRD as a typo. Thanks.
Yes to all of Ken's remarks below . My additional point was that "we" (geoengineering list) do have one company which claims the more you drive with their product - the more carbon dioxide removal (more CDR). Both carbon neutral and carbon negative.. I only know of one biofuel company with this claim. Surprisingly, not looking for more capital, with small factories (refineries outputting a drop-in fuel) leaving Colorado as soon as next year: Cool Planet. They are not in the "air capture" category of CDR approaches. Ron On Aug 23, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Ken Caldeira <kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu> wrote: >> "The transportation sector accounts for 28 percent of greenhouse gas >> emissions in the United States, according to U.S. EPA, so there is still a >> critical need for a way to reduce the overall carbon dioxide produced from >> mobile sources." >> > > > There is a critical need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from mobile > sources. For the most part, the transportation can be electrified and the > electricity sector can be decarbonized. > > The transportation power needs that cannot be met by electricity (e.g., > perhaps aviation) can be met by biofuels. > > If air capture of CO2 can compete with emissions reduction on cost (broadly > interpreted), great. But to get near to zero CO2 emissions, there is no > necessity for air capture. > > > > > _______________ > Ken Caldeira > > Carnegie Institution for Science > Dept of Global Ecology > 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA > +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu > http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab @kencaldeira > > Assistant: Sharyn Nantuna, snant...@carnegiescience.edu > > > > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Ronal W. Larson <rongretlar...@comcast.net> > wrote: > > On Aug 23, 2013, at 12:05 PM, "Rau, Greg" <r...@llnl.gov> wrote: > > Greg etal: > > This is to comment on a line in the EE report you posed, which said: >> "The transportation sector accounts for 28 percent of greenhouse gas >> emissions in the United States, according to U.S. EPA, so there is still a >> critical need for a way to reduce the overall carbon dioxide produced from >> mobile sources." >> >> I hope there are others, but the company Cool Planet <www.coolplanet.com> >> is proposing exactly this. Perhaps surprisingly, their concept goes >> beyond "reduce" (which it does); it also "removes" (via a co-product >> biochar). This is a well-funded company, with aggressive expansion plans, >> perhaps putting refineries in the field within a few years.. > > Ron > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.