An MIT Energy Initiative study finds many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of “direct air capture” and therefore may not bring about promised reductions.
Kind reminder that the first solar panels had an efficiency of around 10%, and are now at 22%. The cost of photovoltaics has decreased 60% over the past decade alone.
Of course there is no ‘silver bullet’. But the researchers of the original article still recommend working on projects like these.
Projects like this are completely necessary, for after we phase out fossil fuels. Not “while we ramp down” or “so we don’t have to shut off this plant over here”. Once the phaseout is complete these systems help reign in the overshoot.
Kind reminder that the first solar panels had an efficiency of around 10%, and are now at 22%. The cost of photovoltaics has decreased 60% over the past decade alone.
Of course there is no ‘silver bullet’. But the researchers of the original article still recommend working on projects like these.
Projects like this are completely necessary, for after we phase out fossil fuels. Not “while we ramp down” or “so we don’t have to shut off this plant over here”. Once the phaseout is complete these systems help reign in the overshoot.
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