Ask HN: Manhattan Project for Climate?
We are close enough to reaching consensus that humanity faces severe risks from climate change, such that we need to do something about it. It also seems pretty clear that the only desirable solution is to use technology to reduce the current level of carbon in the atmosphere while at the same time increasing consumption of energy from current levels, vs. shrinking the population or asking individual people to change their behavior. Five mass scale solutions include: - Incorporating nuclear fission into the power grid at mass scale - Inventing and incorporating nuclear fusion into the power grid at mass scale - Inventing direct carbon capture technologies and using them to replace hydrocarbon extraction at mass scale - Continually improving battery technologies to improve efficiency and reduce materials - Continuing the roll out of renewables like solar and wind, where it makes sense The
Why it failed
We are close enough to reaching consensus that humanity faces severe risks from climate change, such that we need to do something about it. It also seems pretty clear that the only desirable solution is to use technology to reduce the current level of carbon in the atmosphere whi
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- bhag2066
- Ended
- 2023
- Source
- hackernews