
164: Just Go Nuclear?
Still To Be Determined
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The Importance of Direct Air Capture for Clean Energy
I claim that net zero goals simply are not enough. We still have the legacy emissions that would yield a net radiative forcing which would continue to add heat to our environment. So I thought, okay, this is a great solution. It's like direct your capture technology. Then when you combine it with synthetic fuels, all of a sudden you can create this like circular carbon economy. And after you hit that fly, we'll go and it become profitable on its own. But this all hinges on one thing, really cheap, really abundant, low cost, low carbon energy. All the things that we're afraid of from it are wrong. Why not just go to the most amazing energy source
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