Geoengineering and Carbon Management : Is There a Meaningful Distinction ?
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INTRODUCTION A broad and expanding suite of responses to the CO2-climate problem have been proposed ranging from energy conservation to the construction of space-based sunshields that could counter some of the effect of increasing CO2. Proposed measures vary widely along many dimensions including their technological feasibility and their distribution of costs, benefit and risks. Here I focus on assessment of industrial carbon management (ICM), defined as the linked processes of capturing the carbon content of fossil fuels while generating carbon-free energy products such as electricity and hydrogen and sequestering the resulting CO2. Put simply, I address the question: Is ICM an advanced emissions control technology or is it geoengineering?
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