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[geo] Bioenergy carbon capture and storage plants ‘should be inefficient’ - environmentalresearchweb

http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/69693 Aug 15, 2017 Bioenergy carbon capture and storage plants ‘should be inefficient’ An inefficient system for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is always preferable

[geo] The Self-Sustaining Climate Remedy - The Energy Collective

http://www.theenergycollective.com/jim-baird/2410549/self-sustaining-climate-remedy The Self-Sustaining Climate Remedy August 15, 2017 by Jim Baird Leave a Comment

Re: [geo] Bullshit in geoengineering discourse

Not all technologies reduce in price with production scale. Firstly, input costs can be controlling factors (ie energy for DAC). Secondly, the innovation step may reduce in costs with production scale, but that step itself may be small. EG Carbon Engineering uses a lot of off the shelf technology,

Re: [geo] Bullshit in geoengineering discourse

There is an important nuance about the scaling of DAC . Most petro-chemical technologies get less costly the larger the plant with empirical relations that the costs scale with the size to a power less than one -usually between .6 and .8 . Those scaling laws apply to cases were the machinery gets b

Re: [geo] Bullshit in geoengineering discourse

I recently started work with the Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative, and found this paper very useful. Thank you. On Tuesday, 8 August 2017 10:51:14 UTC+1, Jesse Reynolds wrote: > > Andrew, Doug, and fellow geo-ers, > > > > There is indeed much BS (for lack of a more graceful