On Mar 25, 3:59 pm, prag <[email protected]> wrote:
> Christopher,
>
> I notice you reference Lovelock. Lovelock seems to have moved on from
> Nuclear to Biochar. See this reference:
>
> "Do you still advocate nuclear power as a solution to climate change?
>
> It is a way for the UK to solve its energy problems, but it is not a
> global cure for climate change. It is too late for emissions reduction
> measures.
>
> So are we doomed?
>
> There is one way we could save ourselves and that is through the
> massive burial of charcoal. It would mean farmers turning all their
> agricultural waste - which contains carbon that the plants have spent
> the summer sequestering - into non-biodegradable charcoal, and burying
> it in the soil. Then you can start shifting really hefty quantities of
> carbon out of the system and pull the CO2 down quite fast."
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126921.500-one-last-chance-to...
>
> (But this site is 3 months old, perhaps Lovelock has moved on to
> something else by now ;-).
>
> Maybe Lovelock thinks we could gear up Biochar faster than we could
> gear up Nuclear? And maybe a sink-inhancement is better than source
> elimination if you think the matter is urgent? Not sure what his
> reasoning is, or how sound.
Now I think I get it, You need sinks to counteract all the pre-
existing sources that will be around for decades. Nuclear just
displaces future sources, as a practical matter.
Makes sense if we are truly hanging by our fingernails on the rim of
the Abyss, I guess.
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