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Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 15, 2024

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Yeah, but those are all classic decarbonization measures, right? Yes, those work. But the premise was to use a pollution argument instead.

Unless you want to simply rename "decarbonization" into "reducing pollution" (and people will resist that, a gas turbine just doesn't produce enough black smoke or yellow water), this won't work. It's too easy to reduce visible pollution while keeping carbon emissions exactly the same.