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Global climate conference closes with climate damage compensation deal | The Hill

This reminds me of work.  When faced with a truly serious issue or challenge, some VP would appoint a committee which would have meeting after meeting and talk about it and write innumerable memos with "plans", few if any of which ever happened because they were silly.  

This group reaches some agreement which is entirely unenforceable.  At least some folks are realizing the 1.5°C goal is ridiculous.  My GUESS is all this has been overblown to a degree (or two) and in a decade plus, they will claim they won the battle even though CO2 levels continued to rise but the models were wrong.

I don't know of any other major source of old carbon in the CO2.  Volcanoes produce some, but comparatively little.  We know fairly accurately the amount of fossil fuel being burned in a year and how much CO2 that produces.  The CO2 "sinks" are less well quantified, the main one is the ocean.

And of course the rise in CO2 corresponds to the rise in burning FFs pretty well over time.

Small modular reactors, or SMRs, are in the news a lot lately. These innovative nuclear powerhouses and their smaller cousins, microreactors, are being touted as not only an important potential source of carbon-free power, but a promising bridge to facilitate the nation’s ongoing transition away from fossil-fuel based generation.


As their name suggests, SMRs are smaller than traditional nuclear power plants and contain new technologies that make them scalable, safer to operate, and potentially easier and cheaper to site and deploy. But are they capable of delivering on their many promises from a technological and financial standpoint, and how long will it take until we could realistically expect these devices to be added to the grid?

To learn more, we’re joined by Dan Walsh, NRECA’s senior power supply and generation director, and Travis Million, CEO of Copper Valley Electric Association, which has been working hard to bring a microreactor to its Alaska territory.

Listen to the episode below:


https://www.electric.coop/along-those-lines-co-ops-explore-small-modular-nuclear-reactors?utm_medium=email&utm_source=rasa_io&utm_campaign=newsletter

This is massive news.  It will be annoying because the Biden administration will claim it unjustifiably, and the big oil lobbyists on the right will downplay it, but it's nice to know that sometimes this country can still create, and not just move money around

I doubt Big Oil cares about this as this would not compete with oil directly or much indirectly.  I read several summaries and it's not what I'd call a breakthrough, it's really just a rather small advance and commercial power remains decades off.

I doubt Big Oil cares about this as this would not compete with oil directly or much indirectly.  I read several summaries and it's not what I'd call a breakthrough, it's really just a rather small advance and commercial power remains decades off.

Sure, but the fact that we are making advances at all, in the face of corporate money (which is a disproportionate amount of research money now, compared to a generation ago), is a good thing.