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Comment by ralusek | Hacker News Reader

Nuclear power for energy.

Forestation/harvesting for carbon capture.

Forestation for the win! But apparently there are a lot of people looking into it (http://trees.org, http://edenprojects.org, https://onetreeplanted.org -- which even has awesome mini-crowd-funds for your company/wedding/etc: https://www.classy.org/campaign/tree-ambassadors/c200082).

How do you get large scale adoption though? Laws? Government projects? Millionaires?

Government projects, on the international scale.

Tax incentives. It's how we encourage a lot of good samaritan behavior.

Offer tax deductions for trees and watch forests pop up everywhere.

Government could subsidize the price of lumber. You want it to be a more economical alternative than farmland. Then leave things like efficient use of water, tree density, and type of fast growing tree to the market, those are probably already optimized.

I'm wondering about crowdfunding and putting the land into a national land bank.

I've seen some promising research from olivine rocks for carbon capture: https://projectvesta.org/. I can't vouch for the science behind it because I'm not knowledgeable in this but it sounds a good idea.

If I have to choose between mass nuclear to replace fossil fuels or the alternative of global warming .... I choose global warming.

Can you elaborate on why?

To my mind:

- We have not solved storage in a way that is reliable enough for nuclear waste

- Nuclear uses another limited resource that will run out, then we'll have to switch again

- Nuclear isn't much better than renewable, and renewable is also available (and has problems that are currently tractable)

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