Tue. 09/28 - Are Climate Companies Reliving the Dot Com Era?
Cool Stuff Daily
Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:28.7 | welcome to the conkey ride home for tuesday September 28th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, could removing methane from the atmosphere be a viable strategy for slowing global warming? And are all of these disparate new ideas and strategies to solve the climate crisis going to lead to real solutions. |
| 0:56.9 | Plus, pulling back the curtain on the ongoing supply chain problems, and the crypto trading hamster |
| 1:04.2 | showing up the pros. Here are some of the cool things from the news today. |
| 1:11.8 | There's an increasing amount of talk these days about carbon capture. |
| 1:16.0 | The capturing of carbon from places like power and chemical plants and storing it, |
| 1:20.4 | often underground, to prevent carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere. |
| 1:25.2 | But a related method that some researchers are investigating |
| 1:28.1 | is methane capture, or rather methane removal. Quoting the MIT technology review, |
| 1:34.6 | methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, and human activities, like natural gas extraction and |
| 1:39.9 | agriculture, have more than doubled its concentration since the pre-industrial era. |
| 1:44.8 | Removing some methane from the atmosphere, or stopping it from being emitted in the first |
| 1:48.9 | place, won't stop climate change on its own, but methane removal could play a role in preventing |
| 1:54.7 | the worst effects of warming this century. |
| 1:58.0 | Methane is relatively scarce. |
| 2:00.1 | Carbon dioxide is about 200 times more concentrated |
| 2:03.6 | in the atmosphere. Nevertheless, it has contributed around 30% of total global warming to date, or about 0.5 degrees Celsius, |
| 2:12.6 | according to a recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Though its |
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