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Ryan Orbuch
Personal blog · orbuch.comscienceeconomics
Ryan Orbuch's personal blog at orbuch.com covers science and economics. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “We need to take CO2 out of the sky – an overview of climate tech”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ryan Orbuch's pages on carbon dioxide removal, including a negative emissions reading list and an overview of carbon removal methods, which commenters describe as approachable.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Occasional blog posts
Most-linked posts?
- We need to take CO2 out of the sky – an overview of climate tech5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-02-25
What Hacker News says?
Check out Ryan's Negative Emissions reading list: https://www.orbuch.com/nets-reading-list "Carbon Removal 101": http://bit.ly/carbonremoval-101 (I helped write this one) Covers a reading list, accelerators, conveners, platforms, newsletters, and funders. Index of startups working on negative emissions: http://www.airminers.org
Comment linking /nets-reading-list
on “We need to take CO2 out of the sky – an overview of climate tech”Submitted We need to take CO2 out of the sky – an overview of climate tech as a story · 255 points
HN discussionSadly the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere even if we stopped polluting today. Will still bring about huge negative effects down the road. We need to decarbonize our society(listed first because it’s the first priority) AND remove CO2. Source & a great read: https://www.orbuch.com/carbon-removal/ If you want to learn about carbon dioxide removal check out AirMiners: https://bootup.airminers.org/ they have a useful se…
Comment linking /carbon-removal/
on “U.S. sets goal to drive down cost of removing CO2 from atmosphere”Submitted We need to take CO2 out of the sky as a story · 193 points
HN discussionMaybe not as hard-science heavy as you are looking for, but I found this article to be an approachable overview of potential methods https://www.orbuch.com/carbon-removal/
Comment linking /carbon-removal/
on “Potential large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands”Carbon removal is definitely required at this stage. I read a lot of "Trees are _The_ solution"-esq news whenever Climeworks is brought up and while they do sequester carbon the reality is they are slow and cannot solely be used to lower atmospheric CO₂ levels. Earth, as we know it today, has the potential to plant an additional 0.9 billion ha of canopy cover (~1.2 trillion trees)[0] Trees will ultimately help in th…
Comment linking /carbon-removal/
on “Climeworks lays the foundation to scale up carbon dioxide removal significantly”