Never let it be said that I don't know how to have a good time
🚨new paper🚨 from me and @gruberte.bsky.social. As part of our work on why/how we should take public control of the Powder River Basin for a managed decline of fossil fuel use. In this paper, we calculate how much it would cost to take over and tl:dr- basically zero dollars. 1/
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Technology is not the only constraint on effective transition away from fossil fuels. Careful coordination of fossil phase-out and climate compatible …
This is the level of toxic we're talking about: process unit inputs that are so corrosive they melt and shatter hazmat suits
(trying this again).
The emissions reduction rollback is huge and deserves this highlight from Narwhal. A few more details on the numbers specifically - its all a bit confusing because "Pathways" has been used to mean both CCS plus other levers 🧵
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The Alberta carbon capture project from the Oil Sands Alliance (Pathways Alliance) has revised down its plan to capture 68 megatonnes of emissions each year
Been on this particular trip many times, but it never gets less crazy: Every single site that has ever handled fossil fuels, ever, is toxic. You are surrounded by this legacy, you see it every day, and if we labelled even a fraction of it, it would blow the politics of energy transition wide open.
