silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year agoU.S. to Fund a $1.2 Billion Effort to Vacuum Greenhouse Gases From the Sky | Many scientists are skeptical of the technology, and environmentalists have criticized the approach.www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down12
arrow-up138arrow-down1external-linkU.S. to Fund a $1.2 Billion Effort to Vacuum Greenhouse Gases From the Sky | Many scientists are skeptical of the technology, and environmentalists have criticized the approach.www.nytimes.comsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squarebreadsmasher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down2·1 year agoUS will do literally anything other than reducing fossil fuel dependence
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoThe funding was part of a law which mostly spends money on reducing fossil fuel dependence, and a little bit on carbon capture.
minus-squareConyak@lemmy.tflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoThis should not be an alternative to reducing fossil but it could help mitigate the effects of climate change we have already signed up for. I hope we continue to invest in this technology.
minus-squarenodiratime@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoThe US is the most energy wasteful society ever seen, with a historic co2 foodprint putting others to shame. It’s time for the US to do it’s duty.
US will do literally anything other than reducing fossil fuel dependence
The funding was part of a law which mostly spends money on reducing fossil fuel dependence, and a little bit on carbon capture.
This should not be an alternative to reducing fossil but it could help mitigate the effects of climate change we have already signed up for. I hope we continue to invest in this technology.
The US is the most energy wasteful society ever seen, with a historic co2 foodprint putting others to shame. It’s time for the US to do it’s duty.