We Still Have No Idea How to Eliminate More Than a Quarter of Energy Emissions

Climate discussions typically center on the need to replace fossil-fuel power plants with technologies like wind turbines and solar panels.

We don't really yet know how to eliminate many of the
processes that contribute to  our carbon dioxide emissions.

But a new paper in Science offers a stark reminder that there are still huge parts of the global energy system where we simply don’t have affordable ways of halting greenhouse-gas emissions.

Air travel, long-distance transportation and shipping, steel and cement manufacturing, and remaining parts of the power sector account for 27 percent of global emissions from the energy and industrial sectors. And the authors say we need much more research, innovation, and strategic coordination to clean up these sources.

Read the MIT Technology story by James Temple - “We Still Have No Idea How to Eliminate More Than a Quarter of Energy Emissions.”