Kann: Land availability will become a major bottleneck for decarbonization
Shayle Kann · Shayle’s “ask me anything” episode · May 12, 2022 · at 9:51
Energy investor Shayle Khan discusses underappreciated bottlenecks limiting the acceleration of clean energy and net-zero mitigation scenarios.
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“Land, I think, will become a big one. Kind of no matter how you slice it in terms of what the big swaths of greenhouse gas emissions mitigation Solutions are going to be. They're going to be pretty land intensive. Solar and wind obviously are very land intensive. If you want to rely heavily on biomass for anything, be it, you know, aviation fuels or biomass energy or BEX, which is biomass with carbon capture and sequestration, which plays a pretty prominent role in a lot of the net zero scenario models that you see, all that stuff starts, land starts to become a bottleneck.”
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