{"id":2889,"date":"2024-06-04T20:13:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T20:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2024-06-04T20:13:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T20:13:25","slug":"common-carbon-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2889","title":{"rendered":"Common [carbon] sense…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nov. 2023 edition<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my ongoing research on the environment, I was just reading part of an article in this National Geographic Magazine edition on various strategies to curb global warming. Klaus Lackner is a physicist with the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions<\/strong> at Arizona State University. He’s experimenting with “…three story tall, carbon sucking, filtering and storing devices.” He colloquially calls them: “mechanical trees.” He says they work, and Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act<\/strong> (signed in 2022) provides billions of dollars, potentially, to companies working on “…direct air [carbon] capture technology.” Lackner noted that, recently, some $1.2 billion from this federal fund was awarded to plants in Texas and Louisiana, which are building “direct air [carbon] capture plants.” I couldn’t help thinking, yeah, okay… but what about planting more non-mechanical trees, too? And what about, collectively, as a nation, developing much more of a [carbon] conservation mind-set, and…? Common [carbon] sense. Note: For more on our campaign’s take on energy\/global warming\/et. Al…, *see<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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