This article, Running Circles over Carbon, is about the lack of financial motivation for ramping back on CO2 production. It focuses on two older technologies: coal burning and the attempts to capture and sequester the emitted CO2, and nuclear energy. Both have start-up or reconfiguration costs that are substantial with substantial fear that the rewards won’t compensate.
While this inability for companies to jump in as solution-providers can be cast as troubling as the threat of CO2 effects grow, it may also mean that truly clean and innovative technologies such as wind and solar will draw more interest and capital — such as legendary oil man T. Boone Pickens major push into wind.