Most countries don’t and won’t do that, though. Coal is only expensive when a society agrees to stop externalizing the costs, and that only works if either most major countries are doing it or when they severely restrict their trade with countries that don’t stop.
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
How expensive is it per MWh compared with coal if you account for removing the CO2 from the atmosphere?
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 months ago
Most countries don’t and won’t do that, though. Coal is only expensive when a society agrees to stop externalizing the costs, and that only works if either most major countries are doing it or when they severely restrict their trade with countries that don’t stop.
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
and that is unfortunately game theory problem without working solution, which is why we are fucked :(