7 Ways To Pull Carbon From The Atmosphere | Random Thursday
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If we are ever going to return the atmosphere to pre-industrial levels, we have to take out some of the carbon we've already put into the sky. Still, carbon capture is a controversial topic and one that many people know very little about. So let's look at 7 carbon capture methods and how they work.
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Me: You know, Joe doesn't really sound like he's from Texas
Joe: See-ment
Me: There it is.
Hehe, yep. It comes out sometimes.
Classic old joe
Paused at 22:00 just to see if someone posted a comment about this. Not disappointed!
For a moment, I thought he was making a pun tho.. To match the earlier one about Sex-ed. You know about the CC. Carbon c-
@@shoam2103 if you get this,read my comment to joe,,its shocking..
If you walk around the forests of New England you will constantly come across stone fences running randomly through the forests. These are the remains of old farms. During the colonial period they would clear these forests for firewood and building material and then plow the cleared land for farming. However, the soil of New England is very rocky and the fields had to be cleared of the rocks before it could be plowed. Therefore the rocks were dug up out of the soil and piled into fences along the borders of the farmers land. This was back breaking work. I remember trying to repair an old stone fence on my property and I found the majority of the stones were too heavy to lift by myself. As Americans moved further west the vast majority of these farms were abandoned for land easier to work. However the fences remain to remind us of a time when New England was largely deforested for farming.
I see them everywhere around southern new york! Every now and again you'll see a giant tree probably a couple hundred years old, around the newer trees, the ones planted after they deforested for farmland.
wow
They are so beautiful when they're taken care of
We have the same thing in old england too! farm fences made with back breaking labour :D
except not many are reforrested unfortunatly. we just have lots of empty fields.
You forgot about the part of Killing off the Indigenous Humans first.
I saw a study recently that looked at trees ability to fight climate change and it showed that forests help to release more moisture into the atmosphere creating more cloud cover which helps to reflect more light from the sun. It basically was showing that there’s more benefits to planting trees than just carbon capture.
Shade
Water vapour is a greenhouse gas so the benefits of this are probably negligible. Might be helping to block light but also traps more infrared so comes out pretty neutral
In Iowa where I live, our farmers plant a LOT of soybeans, and while they're not _technically_ being planted as cover crops since the soybeans are being sold for profit, in all effective regards they're an incredible cover crop. They're a legume, so they enrich the soil not just through carbon capture but also through nitrogen fixation, and if the soybeans can either be used for making people food or for feeding livestock.
But that carbon capture is only fleetingly temporary. Eventually, the CO2 of that biomass gets returned to the atmosphere through microbial metabolism.
Soy beans are expensive! We need less meat and fish! To make 70% of the wild back to full diversity! It is at 40% right now! 😏
@@dividedconquered3784 Cannibalism is carbon neutral.
@@Aconitum_napellus only self cannibalism.
@@dividedconquered3784 No! Humanity needs MORE meat. That kind of fat is needed to make our brains grow in intelligense. At least 40% of our food have always been meat. It´s not about any kind of protein, it must be MEAT! All steps of human civilisations have started with new kinds of using meat. First step was to grill meat. Men made hunting-parties and got the 40%. Women gatherred the other 60% of food.
I almost spit out my coffee at the “carbon spewing all over our faces” part. I love this channell
same
Well, you do have carbon-spewing all over your face, every time you breathe out.
Climate change activism is a racist plot to try to keep many PoC countries from changing to better climates.
Love it
More CO2 on Earth. Look above!
"Seement"
Yeah you're not slipping that one past me Joe
So that’s what the carbon industry is spewing all over our faces
I came to the comments just to say that. Sneaky Joe
Semen...t. He must've been still thinking of the tangent cam bit.😁
SAME
That’s honestly how most Texans pronounce “cement”.
Really enjoyed this video. I am a farmer in Canada but also went to school for environmental engineering. We do our best to protect our water and soil but I had never thought much about ways to decrease carbon in the air. This is very interesting and I will think and do more research on it. Thanks! Also, thank you for your respect. It seems farmers always get blamed for all environmental problems without people realizing they are the ones who need the food or that most farmers also care and have made many improvements over the years.
Good on you Samantha!
Look up Gabe Brown, and also Joel Salatin. They are legendary regenerative farmers in North America.
(I'm a regen farmer in Aus, so what I do is not really applicable...)
Cheers!
Of course you never thought about it, nobody really cared until a decade or two ago!
“Of course, that would make the carbon...,,Eww.” Lol
“Spewing carbon all over our faces” is the best laugh I’ve had this year 😂
I literally just taught a two hour lesson on CCS, then I login to CZcams and find the video! Guess what the students homework is!
Damn, if my homework had been watching educational youtube content, my scholarity would have been great/better.
If I could just sit and watch Joe Scott for homework, I’d love life.
Start with Joe Scott and then learn the maths with the organic chemistry tutor.
Washing your car?
I hope it's going to be a critical analysis of why Joe is dodging the real problem with CO2 by pretending magic tech is going to help?
Ecosia: Search engne that plants trees. OceanHero: Search engine that pulls plastic out of the ocean.
I'm up to 275 trees since making Ecosia my default a two months ago.
Those are just economic pseudosolutions, using good cause donations as an excuse to profit from people believing the marketing. Doesn't mean the good cause they donate to isn't good and worthy, merely that other ways to send money to the cause are probably smarter.
As a Farmer who has been using cover cropping and spreading basalt recently I found this pretty interesting. No incentives to do it from government or anywhere else, it just makes sense.
As a stem cell biologist, I think it's fascinating that we might be able to combat CO2 emissions through synthetic biology. Plants contain a set of unique genes which enable them to convert CO2 into sugars. Recently, scientists have introduced the same genes into bacteria thereby also giving them the ability to consume CO2 (I made a video about this). Although this technology is still quite ineffective and in its early stages, we could use it in larger scales to reduce CO2 emissions one day!
1) You still have to put it in sunlight somewhere
2) Efficiency is low
Just exploit the gene editing market and make profit
And with it gene that enables us to use carbon dioxide for energy will be developed along the way
Just imagine gullible consumers tryna edit themselves to oblivion in the next decade.
What *haven't* you made a video on?
But then what?biofuel?plastic?so it's more a carbon neutral tech then?
Forests move the water from oceans to inland areas.
Planting forests may be necessary just to fight droughts in the coming millennia
Planting forest causes more problems that solving it, because oftentimes they either plant wrong alien species or plant only one species (monoculture) which do more harm to the ecology in the area. The correct way to solve it is just leaving nature to be restored by itself. Literally, just leave them alone. Everything we human touches, it's screwed up.
@@nokaton So you plant a mixture of indigenous trees.
@@Aconitum_napellus Good in theory but not practical. By making some kind of artificial plantation, the plants need to be taken care of. You need an irrigation system, because you 'force' the plants to grow there. The aim is to restore the original ecosystem, not turning it into another kind of agriculture (monoculture or either mixed plant). The point is that the original ecosystem is more much much more diverse than what we can imitate. Letting the area to regrow plant by it self is better. The ecosystem can restore itself; plants can regrow without human intervention. I do not argue that, if it has been done enough correctly, it won't be good. But the strategy like mass planting would rather give worse outcomes, as more people involve, or either politics, it would lead to poor bureaucracy and poor management. (It already did happen in my country). You will end up in monoculture of alien plants. (don't underestimate bureaucracy).
NO! Forrests do not "move" any water from oceans onto inland areas.
It´s another process. When it rains in extream dry areas, the rainwater will evapourate in just some days. Only a minimum of that rain will go into the ground, if any, and build up subsoil water. NOTE! In most dessert areas there are enough rain to keep up forrests. That´s where humans have to help nature get those areas re-forrested. You have to plant trees!
There are some "rules" to follow in order to get a happy result! Among others:
* Forrests build up it´s own water suply
* Choose trees species who can resist ground fires as most as possible. Mostly because it´s rootsystems sticks right down under the tree, and not grows wide near it´s stem.
* The army have to protect the growing forrest from grassing cattles, especially goats.
* The trick is to let tree species grow which protect from sun burning the ground.
* Another trick is to build a lot of ponds up in the hills, where you can see old creeks etc have once flowed. They will catch a lot of water when it rains and not let it flow down too quickly. Then a lot of water will build subsoil water. Also start plant the right kind of trees round every pond.
* To re-forrest a dessertarea needs time. That is possible to reduce. Build a coalplant and supply a system of pipelines from the oceans into the dessert areas. Then desalt that water and fill a lot of ponds/inlandsea´s. Better with coalplant, which can produce a lot of CO2 to spread around the dessert areas. Trees grow a lot faster then. Every professional vegetable grower knows that.
* It´s also possible to make a cold area "warmer" if you plant the right species of tree. For ex northern half of Siberia was a normal forrested area where it today is tajga during the ice-age. But it´s only possible if there lives the right kind of animals, like mamuths, wolly rhino´s and especially the american bison. In fact russia have started a large project in Siberia about 50 years ago, where imported bisons now are re-moddeling large areas into steps and forrested areas. Bisons eat "bad" species and leave the good species.
@@nokaton Read my post above!
I never would have thought I’d hear a joke about facials in one of these videos.
I’m the furthest thing from educated in all of this but, tell me Joe, how do you manage to scare the shit out of me and give me hope at the same time?? Keep up the good work and let all of us “ commoners” know what we can do to turn this beautiful ship we call home around. Thank you for just being an “average, concerned joe”. You represent so many of us!
So satisfying seeing Joe get the following he deserves.
I’m only upset that I didn’t find joe earlier
It's a long time coming I've been watching for a good bit
I represent this insinuation..
00:10 Here's the benchmark of this above post commentary and your welcome 😷
Found him last week and I'm on a hard binge!
I love how moderate your videos are. I know that doesn't sound like a compliment but I don't feel like you have any hidden motives. It's all out in the open. In a word, honest. It's refreshing and I appreciate it.
And evidence based - far too little of that these days
I agree. Dave Borlace of Just Have a Think is the same that way.
He's a paid shill!
"Instead of bitcoin mining, you can mine sky"
*Midnight Oil wants to know your location.*
I just like the sound of mining the sky! I look up and see dollar signs all around!
I'm embarrassed that I didn't think of this. Long time fan here and Blue Sky Mine is one of my favourite songs of theirs.
Joe Scott's audience and Midnight Oil listeners. Surprisingly, there's an overlapping area in that Venn Diagram.
The answer is to use a variety of cost effective carbon capture techniques appropriate to the climate, bio and geo environments and available technologies.
EverGreenCoin will reward you for DIY carbon reduction and sequestering.
Partially yes, but reversing climate change will not be cheap. Acting as if it could be will just be used to wait until it's too late
@@slevinchannel7589 no but am always happy to learn new stuff. I have just paid people for composting, using char and, mulch in no till zones.
I feel like carbon capture is less of a condom and more of a morning after pill...
Yeah, what about planting trees?
Hehehehehhhh...
Either way we are fucked.
Did you actually pay attention to the video?
@@iamtheleuz yea! and I really liked it! learned some about new technologies for carbon capture and had some good laughs!
@Genie Le Bottle after its been left in there for far too long ................
"ever heard of trees?" is the carbon capture version of the retail customer joking "does that mean its free?" when the scanner doesn't work.
cant have scanners without a forge,metals.ect..
By customer, you mean boomer, right? That's totally boomer humor (not funny or clever in the slightest)
@@TMS9918A Nope I mean customer. never called anyone boomer, never plan to. same with calling someone "a Karen". Derogatory terms rub me the wrong way
@@Ulmaramlu waah waah
@@TMS9918A Maybe, but I've heard plenty of gen-Xers and millennials use that sort of humour too.
All I know is I hope for a future where teachers tell students "people back in the 21st century believed that the climate was going to collapse and that the world would become a lifeless desert" ---as a means of explaining the strange, foreign concept to kids, kids who can't fathom anything of the sort because it is so far beyond their reality. A man can dream.
This isn't a problem that any future generation won't have to deal with.
At one time, everyone was concerned about overpopulation, but due to birth control, governments are now worried about population decline (in reality, it is stabilizing).
We can't hope for a single technology to come along and fix the climate for us, but hopefully we can find a way to at least pull back from the brink within our lifetimes.
I am an agrologist and the part about cover crops was well summarize. Good video and thanks for your good work :)
"Spewing their carbon all over our faces" haha. Guess thats the money shot. Dang that casting couch is looking gross. Lmao
Well.... we do have to stop spewing Carbon into Mother Earth...
@@joelpassanha8996 Onto*, it's on the air, and it's pretty darn visible
@@joelpassanha8996 Earth: What are you doing step species?!
Yes the timing of that comment following the preceding theme conjured up messy thoughts.
I shouldn't have watched this while at work. This comment made me laugh so hard.
I can’t stop thinking of the fact that the best carbon scrubbing machines also create carbon.... and often a lot of it
Needs to be combined with nuclear. We now have portable non meltdown producing reactors. Just needs the will and care...
@@cmath4871 “the decisions made by the powers-that-be will get to us in the end."
i mean ofc, the law of conserved mass, unless you literally nuclear it, carbon is still carbon, however way to move it around
the trick is to make the carbon useful in a less messy way
@@aronseptianto8142 damnit...I was gonna say that!🤔
Carbon scrubbing centipede
Excellent video, thank you!
May I suggest a few more ideas?
1. Agroforestry. The planted trees (or bamboo) are fast growing and capture a lot of CO2 in max 2 decades. You can burn them to coal (or use the biomass in a BCCS-Powerplant) and use it as a fertilizer.
2. Basically every engine, that sucks in air, can use a CO2-filter (like the really genius MIT-battery!). That may be a good opportunity for fuel cell vehicles! You'd need a lot of them though...
3. You can plant trees not only on land, but also in the sea. Mangroves grow in seawater, so it would be possible to grow them on artificial floating platforms. The platforms would be a few feet under water held in place by cables. That could work great on continental shelfs and be used even during rising sea levels.
Joe, you give me hope for the future, you are an amazing teacher/ communicator. Thanks for educating us all.
Joe: “Big Oil is going to unload all over our faces!”
CZcams: “We call that the No Money Shot. #Demonetized”
I use Joe to help as background sound to fall asleep.
And then I rewatch when I wake back up.
I don't know what that means about me, but at least he has a soothing voice.
It's strange but so very true.
Haha same.
Maybe I should play my own videos to help me sleep.
Doing this right now.
Hello Joe,
A handy way to put CO2 back into concrete can be done at home when building a home out of “AirCrete“, which is basically whipped, foamy concrete. Instructions are available from multiple sources on CZcams that show how to make a simple rig comprised of an air compressor, a 55-gallon drum, PVC pipe, water and concrete mix along with a dose of dish detergent. Normal “FoamCrete” or “AirCrete” is made by injecting the detergent-generated bubbles into the concrete mix, producing a very lightweight but very strong concrete with excellent insulating properties.
Now substitute CO2 to replace the air (and a sealing agent to retain it) you have a 200-year vault of Carbon-longer if the structure is cared for.
Thanks for another informative video 👍🏻
You mentioned that alternative cement was a different material, but I seem to remember hearing on a podcast recently that there is a low-carbon way of making exactly the same material. The beauty of this is that it's less of a worry for the construction industry, who are often (understandably) conservative.
@Slevin Channel yes, I find it sad that connecting people into new communities based on beliefs and ideologies ironically makes society more polarised. To be rational is to fight against human nature and I think that critical thinking skills should be embedded in school curricula around the world.
The production of normal cement as it is used in concrete is inherently going to realease a significant amount of CO2, the best we can do is replacing the heat source with something carbon neutral.
This chap's had a look at the options as they stand at the moment:
czcams.com/video/MkE-2npiqFc/video.html
I missed most of the video because I'm dealing with work stress, but hearing Joe's soothing drone as I stressed out was very nice. Thanks Joe
Funny, it just occurred to me the other day how I rarely nod off....unless...I'm listening to Joe.
Congratulations Joe on your beautiful channel's well-deserved success.
It's amazing to see how far you've come since the first time I stumbled upon your 'how to make an old fashioned' video.
Which BTW, I did make and turned out so good, I am constantly asked to make one for my friends.
Team everything on board. Cement homes that absorb carbon sounds good however does it absorb continuously or after a year it's full?
Someone out here really appreciates what you’re doing, and how you’re doing it. Good job. Keep after it.
Hey Joe, long time viewer here. I love and appreciate what you do and one of these days I plan on joining your patreon. Thanks bro
I appreciate that, thanks!
This gets a like from me just cause of adult humor
4:45 I'm totally on your side, we really need to do EVERYTHING to reduce the level of greenhous gases in the athmosphere! #TeamAllTheThings
“Spewing their carbon all over our faces” I laughed so hard
I saw one last week about growing kelp on buoys in mid-ocean. The dead leaves would sink into the deep ocean. Once in place, it would just keep running as long as the buoys were there to provide an anchor point for the kelp.
I could see turning our Pacific plastic mass into a floating platform for kelp forests. Fight two problems while increasing biodiversity by increasing biospheres in deep ocean areas that do not effectively produce sealife.
People often forget that trees can feed us, too. Nuts are some of the most calorie-dense foods. Carbon-sequestration farming = reforestation
And that they move water from the ocean inland through rain and evaporation
Don't forget things that are technically bushes and not trees. Some of them produce a very large food harvest.
Tree farms aren't forests and only capture 2% of the CO2 that a forest would.
@@DrJohnnyJ True, modern industrial monocrop tree farms are definitely NOT forests, and are pretty lame about sequestering carbon (some are actually net emitters by depleting soil carbon) but we can do much better than that. Modern experiments in agro/ecology/agroforestry and permaculture have shown that we can in fact steward systems that simultaneously feed us and sequester substantial amounts of carbon, while also rebuilding biodiversity and becoming more resilient to the already-changing climate.
Edit: I will try to dig up some reference papers on this after work; I know I have them somewhere but finding them again is the challenge :P
A lit review I was able to dig up quickly:
Nair, PK Ramachandran, et al. "Carbon sequestration in agroforestry systems." Advances in agronomy 108 (2010): 237-307.
Will dig more if I have time later
Joe you rock! I love to laugh&learn and you make it happen.
The best is regenerative agriculture and the equivalent in forest management to sequester carbon back into the soil, in part using cover crops as mentioned. But also growing and farming kelp seaweed forests like what’s happening off the coast of Tasmania
I remember reading that tweet as it happened "Hey Elon, ever hear of a tree... yap yap!" and that's the exact same Karen face I made. LOL!! 🤣🤣
I'm surprised you didn't mention that well intentioned tree planting programs have often destroyed peat bogs (cheap land) but those peat bogs had been sequestering way more carbon than the trees planted there ever could. I feel like I learned this from you
I saw someone saying it might work to turn yard clippings and farm waste into charcoal briquettes with the waste heat from power plants and bury them in old coal mines, based on the idea that in mid to late summer the US corn belt rivals the Amazon Rainforest for o2 production but most of it leaks back out of the farm waste.
As a truck driver I'm somewhat Familiar with DCC ( Direct Carbon Capture ) or CCS ( Carbon Capture and Sequestration )in that our 15L Diesel engines no longer produce that Black smoke which has long been associated with Trucks. So next time you're out on the Highway look at the smokes stacks, ( if they even have em. )we no used D.E.F ( Diesel Exhaust Fluid ) which soaks a huge carbon Filter and over time that filter fills, and we do what is called a " Regen. Short for Regeneration which uses the heat from the Motor and essentially Burns the carbon off the Filter cleaning it. Also I didnt mention specifically but I Drive a 10 Speed 18 wheeler. I assumed it was implied in the beginning. My truck hold 12-18 Gallons of it amd if I ran with a full tank all the way to empty I'd Estimate I could around 3,000+ miles before needing to fill. And DEF, or, Diesel Exhaust Fluid is about the same price as supreme Gasoline. So around 2.60/G.
I stopped mowing the back half of my lawn. I've counted 20+ little trees that are now naturally growing. Plus I use less gas mowing the lawn. It's a start.
I’m sure your neighbours salute your efforts.
@@adamwest8711 my only neighbor will soon be out of sight.... when the trees are fully grown lol
Some characters do that towards the end of the Overstory (great book). Everyone tries to get them to mow their lawn again. But it’s not what the planet wants or needs
Last time I was this early our oil was still walking..
Edit: thank you all to point that out scientifically it is indeed true that most of fossil fuel comes from plants especially from the great rainforest collapse from the end of the carboniferous period. Still oil is frequently called dinosaur-juice as a joke.
That's early...
Oil comes mostly from plants
I belive most of it was swiming
never was. 🌱
@@DanielPereira-ey9nt probably not, plankton comes from greek and it means "drifters". Plankton are lazy bastards.
I love the fact that Joe approaches these issues from a practical, non-ideological point of view. Some people are so wrapped up in their climate change ideology that they’re unable to negotiate a realistic compromise regarding the issue. Joe is able to proper articulate the different stances all in one nice monologue, I love it.
Kelp is reported to take up 7 times more carbon than trees. Hemp also grows very fast & can replace many other products that presently produce a lot of carbon etc.
I've read that planting bamboo cleans the air much faster than trees, because they grow so quickly.
Bamboo is a type of tree! And yes, bamboo is a carbon sequestering champion but is only appropriate in certain climates and certain micro-climates within the macro climates.
@@Myth8Anthropology isn't it an type of grass?
@@Myth8Anthropology Bamboo is anything but a tree species.
@@Myth8Anthropology it's grass
@@jakobklee2800 You are correct, I stand corrected. Bamboo is taxinomically in the same family as grasses. However, Caroljo is correct in saying that they grow faster than trees. Growth = biomass = carbon sequestration.
omg I was just thinking about this, can't wait to watch this!
the joke about plant a tree made me think of the moringa tree. it's a very fast growing tree that you can eat all the leafy materials from and the woody material can be turned to mulch and returned to the soil. 1-2 times a year you almost completely chop the tree down. this increases the amount of leafy matter it produces. so this tree could really capture a lot of carbon and sequester it while providing food. Harvesting can start in as little as 6 months after planting.
Deserves a follow-up video, this would be a great one to elaborate on. I’d like to see some focus on the marine CO2 cycle, how the ocean is a massive carbon sink not just chemically but ecologically/biologically and why removing carbon from ocean water would be more efficient and effective than trying to pull it out of the air itself. There’s even a pilot program creating fuels from seawater courtesy of the Navy, *that* has massive potential for both carbon sequestration and for zero-carbon liquid fuels (given that the process energy would come from renewables and/or nuclear). Anyway great work as always Joe and team, keep it up!
lmao, the condom reference killed me
So as a German, let me ask you this: a condominium is a small condom?
@@fatdad64able maybe in Joe's case IDK (and I don't want to know, although he'd probably tell me if the price was right) BUT elsewhere in Texas (Land of the Swinging Dicks) we make use of (or at least claim to do so) the CONDOMAXIMUM. Extra room, in case you wind up in the "family way". On the BRIGHTSIDE™: you get to tear through walls.
Natural Sequence Farming and Regenerative Farming are also ways to increase the carbon holding capacity of the soil on farms.
I hadn't heard of seamint before, I learn so much every time I watch your videos!
I'm with Joe here. Anything that can help remove CO2 from the air should be on the table, as long as we aren't going to create more long term problems.
A couple points I'd like to address. With respect to the agricultural practices. A lot of Midwest farmers have started using cover crops much more extensively as we've started to see an economic benefit from their usage. Most modern farmers, despite popular belief, are quick to adopt practices that are shown to increase yields and profits. I have no doubt that using basalt would be quickly adopted in the same manner, if it is cost effective and can increase yields. But as Joe points out, farmers are business owners out to provide a life and livelihood for their family. We're going to have to provide that data that shows the benefit of these practices.
I'm pretty excited about some of these newer technologies. And I am equally excited about potential future value from carbon as a market resource. I'm a big believer that the best way to bring about change, especially with regards to climate change, is by presenting people with clear economic advantages to go with the more environmentally friendly option. The great climate debate has proven that its very hard to bring about change by warning people about things that may not even come about in their lifetime. But give them an immediate economic incentive, and you've won that debate. So I am absolutely on team All The Things.
The issue with biomass is the economics behind it. The romantic "it takes waste products and make energy" quickly turns into "how do we make more waste products to maximise profit" and you're back in destructive behaviours :/
Excellent point. Like growing soya - to feed cows!
That's exactly what I was thinking when he mentioned BCCS. Sure, at first it'll be waste biomass, but knowing humans and our propensity for needing / wanting more energy, we're going to end up cutting down more trees / forests to burn. Not a good idea.
Its truly bizarre to think that a generation of humans reared in post apocalyptic, hindsight being 20/20, less effort is
for
metaphoric effect,
carbonless
causational irony?
Click = C02 coal plant woosh.
That a bottomless sticky bag of clicky sugar clicky pellet info entertainment clicky
news
is best neutralizing or disuading the power in voting, or better still silencing the potential collective voice in our economic power to choose our future.
Truth is positive. Its gotta stay positive not to balance failure or hedge funds.
Silouette Absoltuism, candy coated fatalism and comfy defeatism worry me more.
We have
already cautioned, thorough scientific study, and reasonably open doors and minds.
Should we consistently lose the future for humanity arguing money= bad humans?
Should empowered humans only be Monkey's Paw twilight zone cliches?
CZcams click = Coal powered Co2 Wo0sH = Automated machine that cleans up carbon while rubbing a silicone wafer and lithium battery together into a AI sparking neuron that says
"shut up dumb poor people..kaboom"
Sigh.
Do it anyway. More cowbell though= more human.
The waters are deep here, we should set an agreed depth, build the ladder down with public demand, the will to build bridges, dams, Aquaducts! Canals! concentrated public effort and employment interest, to gauge the real difficulties and daily stress to climb out, each day,
back to our
safe
warm
more bells
easier whistles
homes?
So we dont automate out of human.
Underneath highway overpasses.
We should jump feet first. Into the water,
embolden by the cold,
the will and love to swim.
Heck, push and pull all the older generation businesses in by their nethers.
We gotta do this before a tv celebrity, anti leads, our anti-government, into throwing all our skilled labor out of college, and solvent work, and instead into detainment camps, with our families on the wrong side of graffiti and train tracks.
We need a Gamal Abdel Nasser, a friendly old jewish guy in mittens, we need to dream huge here.
Thanks Joe. Great video!
Joe, great video! Also talk soon about regenerative farming and land restoration and wilding plus natural cycle livestock farming methods.
23:39 "This is really exciting stuff!"
I'm totally onboard with that statement.
It will be exciting to live in a matchsticks house. 😝
Seriously now, I wish you'd cover the fire safety angle on these solutions.
Had to pause @ 5:29 during the Tangent Cam to give the thumbs up..lol sooo good, well done Joe.. =)
8:40 Rotating crops is so new a practice it's mentioned in the bible...
Everything old is new again.
''I see the future repeating the past,
I see a museum of big novelties'' - Cazuza, time doesn't stop
@Timothy Mckee Before the industrial revolution, CO2 was at 280ppm. During the last glacial period, CO2 was at 180ppm. Plants still grew. The only difference is the amount of breathing holes at the underside of the leaves. We are now at 417ppm. That means there will be fewer breathing holes under the leaves. Like sunlight, plants absorb only so much per day. It's a stupid idea to think CO2 will be beneficial in additional quantities. If you haven't noticed, the western US is on fire. How much CO2 are those burnt trees and houses going to absorb?
@Timothy Mckee Quite the contrary, if the temperature continues to rise, the majority of the planet's land area will turn into a desert.
@Timothy Mckee I have listened to Harper on numerous occasions. He's a denialist. If we continue in our direction, we will encounter another Permian extinction-type event. No matter what, the fossil fuel industry is coming to an end. Civil lawsuits will probably kill them off before anything else. Right now there are only about a dozen lawsuits. It won't be long and that number will go into the hundreds.
My brain registered the thumbnail as Minecraft for a few seconds. I don't play but my kids do, maybe too much?
Joe, one thing you missed, when you were talking about the ocean, which would actually support the idea of deep-sea CO2 storage is the fact that (according to a video I watched a couple years ago on CZcams) Sperm whales play a part in bringing CO2 to the bottom of the ocean which is another reason why these incredible creatures, as well as all the other whales, should not be hunted.
Congrats on 1 Mil Joe and team!
Dude, I had to replay that face you made at the beginning 🤣
I would love for you to do a show about the use of intensive herd grazing to sequester carbon. Getting rid of the massive feed lots a getting animals out on pasture. Helping build soil and sequester more carbon than any of the other ways you talked about. Watch Kiss the ground. It does a great job of showing how this works. Also there are lots of ranchers out there that are following these practices like Joel Salatin, Gregg Judy, and three sisters cattle company.
You had me at the basalt and planting trees options. Really simple, organic, if nature does it why not us?
I have 1 word. "Hemp" Hemp is said to absorb 15000 lbs of CO2 per acre (Don't quote me). Use the resultant crop for paper manufacturing, capturing the carbon in the form of paper. It can also be use to build Building materials. I am sure it has many other uses but these are the 2 easiest to implement. If you were to seed industrial hemp (This is not marihuana) into unused area of north America you could Significantly reduce the carbon levels. Also Buffalo and cattle can readily digest hemp.
They should try to find a way to incorporate all that carbon into batteries we all are going to need so many of in the future.
It is already happening with Lithium batteries. New types use carbon.
Great idea!!! 💯
we can easily turned captured carbon into fuel for vehicles. Carbon neutral fuel!
@@silviafox78
Yes, microbes that use sunlight and CO2 to make oil are already a thing. We just now have to make the process more efficient. I would keep this sort of thing mostly for aircraft.
The car I use on a daily basis can easily electric.
Long haul trucking needs an energy source that brings a lot of energy for not too much weight.
@@kensmith5694 - Yeah, Fossil Fuels are still one of the easiest and highest energy-dense tools to use for transportation along with being extremely cheap and already having world-wide supply/demand... It's only going to be replaced in select ways and I believe only once it the price rises due to scarcity will we ever stop using it and switch to the eventually 'cheaper' options which may be better for the environment but that could still choke our lower income workers and families.
That reminds me how the american president Biden cancelled the keystone pipeline. That pipeline would have helped save on emissions since the oil would otherwise be transported by train and truck. People say pipelines are bad for the environment but in reality they are overall better than our older ways of transporting the oil. That particular pipeline was targeted strongly even though america already had many thousands of giant pipelines already in operation.
So you want a machine that pulls carbon from the air, spits out oxygen, and is solar powered? That's called a tree. -Joe Scott, 2020.
Could hemp be used as a cover crop? Also, does growing cover crops take into account the fertilizer and the fossil fuel burned in their growth? Hopefully, they would more than offset these factors.
No idea if anyone will read this but here goes: 1) No, hemp wouldn't be a cover crop. The idea is low-growing plants that provide a thorough barrier between sky and soil, to slow down falling precipitation and keep soil cooler. Carbon capture is just a side benefit! So think grasses, not bushes. Also the idea is you plant in fall and grow them over winter, then plant corn or whatever cash crop on the land in the spring. Hemp is a thirsty tropical plant with a fraction of the root density of grasses.
2) You don't use fertilizer for cover crops. That's the idea. And planting grasses via broadcast spreading (or even no-till drilling) in just-harvested ground uses a relatively minute amount of diesel.
HTH!
This channel deserves way more subscribers.
Hey Joe, firstly THANK YOU for this amazing channel, love your videos, insights, and dedication to spreading well researched knowledge. Could you do a video on the new (unscientific) theory that older, advanced civilizations built the pyramids and Gobleki Teppi (mostly made famous by Hancock). The theory sounds sketchy to me and although it would take only 10,000 years for no trace of a civilization to remain, isn't that incorrect? Wouldn't there still be some signatures that would remain (fossil bones, waste that was fossilized, etc)? I thought that whole pyramid thing was put to rest but this new theory seems thought provoking. Thank you.
Not exactly. Should we perish and an alien science team arrive 100,000 years after our demise. Our activities in changing the earth's surface would still remain. Effects to the terrain from road building, mining and construction would be evidence of an intelligent species once dominating the planet as would leftover nuclear stockpiles and waste. A few of our probes sent into space or to other orbiting bodies would also show the emergence of a space-faring species long into the future. I like the idea of a massive glass pyramid or cone built on earth's south pole as a repository of everything humanity has ever encountered. As long as Antactica doesn't move around too much, the poles would seem a logical point to explore for an alien species. And should temperatures remain low enough, a lot of earth's dna could remain viable for study
The EAS could be integrated into the aircon systems of office buildings or homes is suppose.
Fantastic job, Joe! You are doing all of us a great favor.
The background snare drums are killing me! Can't unhear it!!!
Earth: *actually dying*
Government: *yall hear sum?*
The planet is fine, the people are fucked. Planet isn't going anywhere... we are.
You might credit George Carlin for that response.
@@KevinLyda I was looking for someone who would take it at face value, lol. But yeah... obviously by one and only George Carlin))
The albedo of forests are higher than that of bare ground, what are you comparing it too? Around 7:20 .
@Joe Scott I'm hoping you can do an update to this story when some progress has been made in creation or implementation of new carbon capture technologies.
Speaking of reforestation, have you seen the research that's been done on using herd animals to intentionally trod on some of the plants they would otherwise eat (and not let them linger there too long), as this helps cool the ground, keep water in, and make it more friendly to plant life? There's an incredible picture of a landscape that was basically just a single tree remaining, with basically dead grass, then decades later, the same picture is retaken with a whole ecosystem there. They did this by letting cattle graze briefly, periodically, pooping and trodding on what little plant life there was, until there was enough grass covering the area to promote other plant growth.
The reason most people have the idea that grazing animals are bad for an ecosystem is that most examples of this involve relatively stationary herds. If they eat up all the grass, then the soil can be dried out and blown away by the wind (much like the dust bowl). This doesn't happen if the herd doesn't stay there long.
I was sad that you didn't mention regenerative grazing
Yes, he missed that and some others where it isn't trees.
Huge opportunity not just for carbon, but water and work. Labour intensive and not very vulnerable to Automation.
We need to make soil, grow more than just trees, we need to grow EVERYTHING. Better yet, grow a food forest that provides food for people and animals. You grow more than tree crops with guild planting than increases the biomass per square foot
I really enjoyed the video. It is very structured and informative. Also, I like how you point out each idea from all angles and specially economical perspective.
I have never thought of using the ocean to capture carbon. It seems to me the best method for carbon capture. We also need to stop hunting whales because they also capture a lot of CO2.
Very entertaining and the best talk on the Carbon emissions that i've watched so far
Good job on the video, joe (haven’t watched it but I somehow know this to be true).
Whenever I get a telemarketer call trying to sell me something: 0:20
There is a plant called common water hyacinth that grows extremely quickly on the surface of water. It's actually causing some problems in SE Asia because it's so abundant. This could be grown and harvested, then processed into a stable form similarly to how biodiesel is made and locked away. I imagine any quickly growing plant or mushroom or whatever would do and common water hyacinth might not even be very efficient since i imagine it contains a lot of water but it's a great example of a plant that grows explosively, 2-5 meters a day.
Great content from Joe, good one.
See-ment. Love the Texas access joe ❤️
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I love that you promoting options gets "context" from CZcams. They really are kind of acting like a publisher right now...
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the reason why this is now my favorite Joe Scott video. 🤣
There is also making biochar. Biochar releases syngas when produced and that syngas can be used to power the furnace making the energy input zero once the furnace is running. The biochar can afterwards be burried
talking about "new farming practices after the dustbowl" really sets me off: "new practices" as in "already used by the romans and most of europe since millenia, but completely forgotten or never learned by ignorant settlers that didn't bother bringing any books across the atlantic", jeez.
Crop rotation was around, but it's not like the roman government gave incentive for farmers to prioritize soil health over planting enough to make a normal living. Some techniques used after the dust bowl were new, some were old, but not used.
@@ayandragon2727 obviusly government incentives were not a thing in rome, but did anyone ever found any trace of europeans turning europe into a dustbowl during the roman or middle ages period? And mind you, most of germany is as sandy as you can get. But then, maybe I'm uninformed. And this kind of disaster (like , well every other kind of disaster) struck europe once or twice in the last 2k years, and that's were the teaching stuck. At least until 'murica.
@@frien_d It's like how the Spanish do it with their 'Dehesa' zones, like naturally spread out Oak plantations that pigs and other animals that live on. America is so vast that it's evolved differently.
@@channelbree my point is it failed to evolve and managed to devolve
13:25 - *the surface of the earth.
Pretty sure the rest of the earth is mostly rock and other materials and we live on the thinnest skin of it which contains 70% water.
and a layer of gas (Thinner fluid)
above that layer
I have thought to myself 'could you genetically alter mangrove trees with bamboo (for C4 photosynthesis and rapid growth) irrigated by seawater, either on land or on platforms. The wood can be then processed for various means.'
It's crazy how the Earth's albedo goes down the warmer it gets, but in people we usually refer to an increased albedo (or something like that) as being on the hotter side. It's an amazing world we live in.