The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

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Julio Friedman and Klaus Lackner r experts at 1 thing - transferring tax payer dollars to their pockets. The little project cited in the article exemplifies is typical of their work

“Every day at the plant, roughly a ton of CO2 that had previously floated over Mt. Garibaldi or the Chief is converted into calcium carbonate. The pellets are subsequently heated, and the gas is forced off, to be stored in cannisters.”

This process adds an extra set of steps to what cement factories do every day and cement manufacturers r one of Lackner and Friedman’s targets as contributors to climate change. Adding extra steps generally doesn’t improve efficiency. There r good reasons why Lackner’s little projects fail (and I haven’t known any that haven’t)