Forests and carbon capture

[Labster]

It depends a lot on where you live, and I forget where you are.  If you're in Hawaii, do it nao!!!11!  If you're in Michigan, it might not be all that cost effective.  If you're in Alaska, maybe a brand new coal plant is the right choice?

I'd rather not see any more coal plants, please. This thread is all about carbon capture, not carbon intensification...

If you'd read the article, you'd would see that it was the right choice in this case.  In Fairbanks, Alaska, where you have not much wind, zero insolation for months, and hydro would freeze.  No nearby sources of nat gas or pipelines, but hey, there's a coal mine really close.  Ideally for these remote places you could get nuclear power, but we don't have a permitting process that would make small nuclear plants affordable.

Trends have outliers; plans have complications.  You can't just ignore data you don't like, because there are real people behind those numbers.