Carbon Dioxide
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Welling: Keeping warming under 2°C requires century-long atmospheric carbon removal
“In order to get, you know, to stay within two degrees, let's say, we would not only have to reduce our emissions to zero by 2050, but then, you know, another half century or even a century, Of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, not by reducing your e…”
Thiel: $100/ton DAC CO2 adds $6/MMBtu to synthetic methane costs
“The, again, sort of best case from the chemistry is something like 2.75 kilograms of CO₂ per kilogram of methane. So thinking back on a, on an MMBTU basis, you know, if you want to Get the good sort of CO₂ from the air, and we hit all our hopes and targets of …”
Kann: Synthetic methane cannot be produced below $20–$30/MMBtu near term
“With today's costs of hydrogen, and today's costs of CO₂, or even the next few years costs of both, You know, it's hard to picture producing synthetic methane. Again, we haven't even talked about the capex here, but it's hard to imagine producing synthetic met…”
Miller: Section 45Q pays $85 per ton of sequestered CO2 over 12 years
“Really what that tax credit says is, hey, if Ted goes out and he takes one ton of carbon dioxide gas, and he injects it into the earth, permanently getting rid of it, we'll pay him 85 dollars per ton that he does via tax credit for a period of 12 years.”
Slashing and Burning Peatland for Palm Oil Emits Billions of Tons of CO2
“And so to meet this growing demand, growers have been slashing and burning tropical rainforest, burning both the trees and the peatland, which is full of carbon that emits billions of tons of carbon dioxide emissions into the air, which is problem number one.”
Szamosszegi: Methane is 84 times worse for the environment than CO2
“Methane is 84 times worse for the environment than carbon dioxide.”
Make Sunsets Sells $10 Stratospheric Sulfur Dioxide Cooling Credits
“So for 10 dollars, you can buy a promise from Make Sunsets that they're going to inject one gram of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere. And also that one gram of sulfur dioxide, they say, will offset the emissions of one ton of carbon dioxide for a period of…”
Reinhart: Non-CO2 greenhouse gases drive 55% of current global warming
“What is often not understood is that warming today, only 45% of warming today is from carbon dioxide. The other 55% of warming today is from a host of other greenhouse gases.”
Rutherford: Total climate impact of flying is triple its CO2 alone
“So if you look at the total climate impact of flying, it's about Three times larger than carbon dioxide alone.”