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At COP28, the United States Will Stress an End to Fossil Emissions, Not Fuels
(insideclimatenews.org)
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this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2023
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Not a chemist, but it seems like the alternatives to a carbon based combustion reaction are GHG CO2 and the deadly CO. I'm not sure how it is possible to use fossil fuels without emissions?
The idea is to use 30% to 50% of the energy from burning fossil fuels to capture the CO2 and pump it back underground. It's expensive enough that it's almost always cheaper to avoid burning fossil fuels in the first place, but the idea is seen by the fossil fuels industry as giving them social permission to keep on extracting, burning, and dumping CO2 in the atmosphere
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Generally, the fossil fuel industry needs to bury its idea's deep deep underground where they can't hurt anybody.
If we had governments that knew what they were doing & had the power, they'd set a future date by which time the fuel industries will be closed down (permanently)
That would motivate the type of transition needed to prevent a worsening #ClimateCrisis
Its amazing what society could do if decision makers were up against a dead line (prevent death line)