The most important clean energy bill was the ADVANCE nuclear act. The vote was 88 to 2:00 in the Senate, so that's as bipartisan as you get. Given that no improvements in cost or safety have been allowed by hostile regulators since 1975, there's a whole lot of technology that we haven't used to make nuclear reactors better. Simply using a manufacturing line would would reduce cost and increase quality my more than 10x. And we haven't upgraded to the Apollo era technology from president JFK 's team at oak ridge. That's the best way by far to make hydrogen.
Today we have people called solid state physicists. They have all kinds of tricks up their sleeves that haven't been used in nuclear power. Starting with the transistor! There are nuclear batteries that take advantage of switches. And ways to use nuclear power to eliminate solar panels. Those lead to designs called nuclear batteries that produce electricity directly.
We have terrific ways to prepare fuel and recycle it that were never available in the 1950s.
So the goal of actually drying down carbon from the atmosphere is not out of reach. We just have to stop industry from saying, "we can't afford it- it's too cheap.'
Trump elected again could also affect global decarbonisation efforts too.
Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement will knock sentiment much more than previously as Europe in particular is less cohesivly behind climate policies.
The IRA has an impact on emerging carbon technologies like hydrogen and CDR according to Rhodium.
On a cumulative basis, every tonne of emissions reduced as a result of IRA ECT incentives leads to 2.4-2.9 tonnes of CO2 emission abatement outside the US.
The most important clean energy bill was the ADVANCE nuclear act. The vote was 88 to 2:00 in the Senate, so that's as bipartisan as you get. Given that no improvements in cost or safety have been allowed by hostile regulators since 1975, there's a whole lot of technology that we haven't used to make nuclear reactors better. Simply using a manufacturing line would would reduce cost and increase quality my more than 10x. And we haven't upgraded to the Apollo era technology from president JFK 's team at oak ridge. That's the best way by far to make hydrogen.
Today we have people called solid state physicists. They have all kinds of tricks up their sleeves that haven't been used in nuclear power. Starting with the transistor! There are nuclear batteries that take advantage of switches. And ways to use nuclear power to eliminate solar panels. Those lead to designs called nuclear batteries that produce electricity directly.
We have terrific ways to prepare fuel and recycle it that were never available in the 1950s.
So the goal of actually drying down carbon from the atmosphere is not out of reach. We just have to stop industry from saying, "we can't afford it- it's too cheap.'
Trump elected again could also affect global decarbonisation efforts too.
Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement will knock sentiment much more than previously as Europe in particular is less cohesivly behind climate policies.
The IRA has an impact on emerging carbon technologies like hydrogen and CDR according to Rhodium.
On a cumulative basis, every tonne of emissions reduced as a result of IRA ECT incentives leads to 2.4-2.9 tonnes of CO2 emission abatement outside the US.
Good point, Peter.