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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 9 months ago

Cement Is a Big Polluter. A Plant in Norway Hopes to Clean It Up. | Heidelberg Materials is betting it can profit from an expensive process that will reduce the carbon dioxide emitted

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Cement Is a Big Polluter. A Plant in Norway Hopes to Clean It Up. | Heidelberg Materials is betting it can profit from an expensive process that will reduce the carbon dioxide emitted

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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 9 months ago
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    Cement accounts for 8 to 9 percent of global CO2 emissions. I think it is really under researched, when it comes to looking for climate change solutions.

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    tl;dr - it’s sequestration, not reduction. Liquify it and pump it underground.

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      They don’t capture all the emitted CO2, so it’s a reduction.

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        It’s not reducing the amount of co2 generated from making the cement. It still generates the same amount, they just take some of it and pump it into the ground.

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          I think we’re in agreement, just using terms in slightly different ways.

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            To me, carbon reduction means you have modified the process in some way that it generates less carbon while producing the same (or functionally identical) product. That is how we fight climate change.

            Generating the same amount of carbon but just putting it somewhere else is putting a bandage on gangrene. It makes it look better, but the infection is still festering underneath. In this case, making it a problem for future generations so the current generation doesn’t have to sacrifice anything.

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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world.  About 1C of total warming.  Second chart:  about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability.  Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases.  About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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