Rallies oppose art gallery closure in Yarmouth | SaltWireIt was technology that got us into this global climate crisis, and it will be technology that gets us out of it.
This technology could end up bigger than solar or wind, because it’s not ‘intermittent’: it produces electricity day and night in any weather.We can get a long way towards solving our energy dilemma even with the current clean energy sources, but to finish the job we will require fossil-free sources of ‘base load’ power, and it’s good to know that in the longer run, they will be available.In the meantime, we need two other key technological fixes, and they, too, are appearing on the horizon.
Drain the resultant soup off, dry it, and you have 65 per cent edible protein, fats or carbohydrates.You can also turn it into appetizing food for people, but the first big prize is animal feed. That’s why we will probably need Solar Radiation Management . This involves reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the planet’s surface just by one or two percent, in order to keep the heating below +2° Celsius while we work to reduce our emissions. It’s not a solution, but it may be a necessary stopgap measure to avoid political and economic chaos.SRM is all about reflecting sunlight back into space, but it comes in several flavours.
Some worry that it might expand the ozone hole, but experts tell me that at worst, it might slow the healing of the ozone hole. It wouldn’t actually expand it.