Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon review unexpected news developments concerning climate and energy that raise some interesting questions -- as well as some really crazy ones.

Scientists Accidentally Discover Efficient Process to Turn CO2 Into Ethanol

Crazy Questions:

1. Could this be a turning point in the viability of ethanol as a fuel?

2. Will this be the end of grain-based ethanol?

3. Will we soon have to worry about too much CO2 coming OUT of the atmosphere as people start to cash in??

4. Re: my climate control scenario from last week: will our first phase of full climate control involve pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere to make ethanol, followed by pumping it back in (via massive coal fires or something) when it gets too low?

Global Warming vs. Global Greening

Crazy questions:

1.Wouldn’t all this greening have a natural cooling effect on the planet?

2. Will greening be another strategy for controlling climate?

 

Solar Grid parity

Uncrazy question: What exactly is Grid Parity?

Crazy questions:

1. Is this evidence of the impending solar singularity?

2. Is solar about to make other forms of energy irrelevant?

 

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