Artificial Lights on Exoplanets, Sun's Black Dwarf Stage, Iron Asteroids | Q&A 202
Can there be habitable worlds around black holes? Where did Mars get its perchlorates from? How are iron meteorites formed? How will the Sun die? Will China succeed with its Moon landing? All this and more in this week's Q&A with Fraser Cain.
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I’m sure that you meant to say:safely and responsibly “decommissioning” fossil fueled powerplants in developed countries;and use the land to build solar or wind generation plants…
Perhaps the transition should be encouraged a bit; hopefully not. And replacing fossil fuel heat source with nuclear would work, too, calling for much less, umm, disassembly, because everything downstream from steam generators could stay the same.
Compared to grand geoengineering schemes, curbing CO2 and methane emissions (both in energy generations and industries like steel and cement; in agriculture we will have to switch to more plant-based diet which is healthier, anyway) is trivially simple; it's just that it infringes on financial interests of very rich and very powerful people. If some billionaire wishes to take the things in their own hands, I suggest starting with bombing fossil fueled power plants in developed countries.