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randomsilence | 3 years ago
There is one: pricing carbons out of the energy market.
If there is e.g. so much progress in carbon fibers that all construction is done with carbon, then all available carbon will be used for that and nobody will waste it to create energy.
Cement will cease to be used because there is not enough rough sand available. If carbon fibers replace that usage, emissions will be stopped.
It's actually stupid to store CO2 in saline storage because in 20 years or so, we will pay good money to get it back.
It should be possible to calculate the price of carbon in 100 years when each of the 10 billion global citizens demands their share of carbon. Offering investment opportunities now in a venture that stores carbon e.g. in the arctics like people store aluminum in the Mexican desert, should provide the funds to create extraction technologies and facilities to make carbon emissions a non-issue.
*edit: Looking at wikipedia, this doesn't make sense. There are 54tonnes available per person.
Maybe humanity has to grow to 1000 billion people to question carbon emissions.
>Proven sources of natural gas are about 175×1012 cubic metres (containing about 105 gigatonnes of carbon), but studies estimate another 900×1012 cubic metres of "unconventional" deposits such as shale gas, representing about 540 gigatonnes of carbon
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