▲ 363 ▼ DeSantis Rejected $350 Million in Climate Funding Before Hurricane Idalia | Now his state is suffering from a storm fueled by climate change. (newrepublic.com) submitted 3 years ago by silence7@slrpnk.net [M] to c/climate@slrpnk.net 33 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) If they would extract heat from the air or even the water, it would actually help. Not by leaps and bounds but it would at least be carbon negative. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] silence7@slrpnk.net [S] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Not to any meaningful degree: the heating from CO2 emitted when your burn coal for energy is about 100000x more than the heat produced from the burning. That's why the big action which needs to happen is to stop burning fossil fuels. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) I was thinking about heat pumps. 300% efficiency They are electric and could be carbon negative depending on the source of electricity permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] silence7@slrpnk.net [S] 1 point 3 years ago Unless it's BECCS, the best they're going to be is not adding CO2 to the atmosphere. That's better than burning stuff, but not actually removing CO2 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net [S] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) Not to any meaningful degree: the heating from CO2 emitted when your burn coal for energy is about 100000x more than the heat produced from the burning. That's why the big action which needs to happen is to stop burning fossil fuels. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) I was thinking about heat pumps. 300% efficiency They are electric and could be carbon negative depending on the source of electricity permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] silence7@slrpnk.net [S] 1 point 3 years ago Unless it's BECCS, the best they're going to be is not adding CO2 to the atmosphere. That's better than burning stuff, but not actually removing CO2 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) I was thinking about heat pumps. 300% efficiency They are electric and could be carbon negative depending on the source of electricity permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] silence7@slrpnk.net [S] 1 point 3 years ago Unless it's BECCS, the best they're going to be is not adding CO2 to the atmosphere. That's better than burning stuff, but not actually removing CO2 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net [S] 1 point 3 years ago Unless it's BECCS, the best they're going to be is not adding CO2 to the atmosphere. That's better than burning stuff, but not actually removing CO2 permalink fedilink source parent