A good ballpark that helps communicate the scale of this is that we’d need to spin up a new industry operating on roughly the scale of the whole fossil fuel extraction industry–coal, oil, and gas together–basically all at once. We’d need similar levels of extraction, transportation, storage, and processing. It would be the fossil fuel industry operating in reverse. It took 200 years to get the fossil fuel industry this big, and that was with the incentive of it basically being a money printer too. It isn’t going to happen.
A good ballpark that helps communicate the scale of this is that we’d need to spin up a new industry operating on roughly the scale of the whole fossil fuel extraction industry–coal, oil, and gas together–basically all at once. We’d need similar levels of extraction, transportation, storage, and processing. It would be the fossil fuel industry operating in reverse. It took 200 years to get the fossil fuel industry this big, and that was with the incentive of it basically being a money printer too. It isn’t going to happen.