re: #515 recusancy

I agree about biochar.

Regarding the second bolded point I agree as well. But that’s not the case. If it was we’d be on the way to fixing things already. We need governement because only government can tackle a problem this large. There’s no price for carbon so there’s no market forces to cause companies to innovate to decrease it.

The waste of carbon in conventional processes is simply stupid. We may see in the future, and shake our heads in disbelief at the waste of this valuable material.

Anything you pay for (coal, natural gas, etc.) should not leave a facility until every last bit of its substance is used to the fullest. Where I used to live, modern anti-freeze (ethylene glycol) was discovered by accident.

Seems the factories making nitroglycerine for use in smokeless powder had thousands of gallons of this useless crap lying around. It was a hassle, no one could find a use for it, so they dumped it into the river. Well, aside form killing the fish (which wasn’t a really big deal, at the time) it caused the river around the dumping-point to not freeze solid, like the rest of the river. A light bulb went off in someone’s head, and modern antifreeze was born.

Pollution is an inefficient use of resources, and a waste of money.