For most countries around the world, sourcing energy entirely from wind, solar, geothermal, and hydropower by 2050 would reduce their energy needs and costs, improve air quality, and help slow climate change, according to a study in Environmental Science & Technology.
Carbon capture WILL be necessary but is absolutely less than useless until every possible power user has switched to renewable electricity
Carbon capture right now is quite literally actively working to make it worse, so please don’t do carbon capture except for research purposes
Came here to basically say this. We are going to have to do intentional carbon capture to even reach “net zero”, and it would be good reach “net negative”.
But, we just gotta stop burning fossil fuels. It would also be nice not to go through our uranium, but I’d rather be using that for base load than coal. I fully expect we can do everything off of solar, wind, and tidal, plus gravity batteries, eventually tho.
basically everything is research scale right now, and we need to do full scale tests to make sure everything works and learn how to optimize things. there’s also non-DAC options to work on too