A Bit Of Perspective Goes A Long Way
2 days ago Willis Eschenbach 81 Comments
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach on eX-Twitter)
Perspective is everything.
The world’s largest CO2-capture plant just went into operation in Iceland, built by a company called “Climeworks”. You can read about it at their site.
Here’s a description:
“According to Climeworks’ estimates, Mammoth boasts an impressive annual capacity of capturing 36,000 tons of CO2. To put this into perspective, this is equivalent to neutralizing the emissions from approximately 7,800 gasoline-powered vehicles.”
Sounds impressive, huh? Same as taking 7,800 cars off the road? WOW!
However, to return to the question of perspective, how many giant plants of this size would we need to neutralize the annual global CO2 emissions, which are currently about 38 gigatonnes of CO2?
Why , a mere ONE MILLION EQUALLY LARGE PLANTS would do it … should be no problem, right?
I mean, if we could build one of these suckers per week, that would only take us … hang on, let’s see … carry over what sums to greater than 9, divide by pi, take the square root, allow for Cook’s Factor, this math stuff is tough … that would only take us 19,231 years to complete the project.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/31/a-bit-of-perspective-goes-a-long-way/
