[geo] Nordhaus book

2014-02-02 Thread Ronal W. Larson
List: The last (at least in my mail) issue of Science had a review (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6169/371.full) of the recent book Climate Casino by Prof. William Nordhaus. In my mind a little more negative a review than deserved. A more positive review was given by Paul

Re: [geo] Nordhaus book

2014-02-02 Thread Andrew Lockley
One thing that interests me about the CDR debate is the issue of future costs. Energy atm is of the order of 10c/kWh. How would our options change if it was 1c or 0.1c? Are there technologies which could achieve such a costs drop? A 1 order drop from solar or fusion is potentially conceivable. A