will be industrial facilities that are emitting co2 that we don t yet know how to do those industrial processes in a zero carbon way, so we have no choice but to carbon capture the carbon and bury it. so we do have to the idea that you have to use it to keep coal plants alive was always a farce. coal plants are already the most expensive way to get power, if you bolt one of these facilities onto it and miraculously get it to work, work best-case can area it s billions of dollars and an energy penalty creates to run the carbon capture facility. so, the whole idea of clean coal was always ridiculous, but it does need to be separated out from carbon capturing sequestration which is its own beast. that s a great point and an important one, we re gonna have to find ways to caption carbon from industrial posture, seas and take carbon out of the air as we move ahead. but the other aspect of this, i think is really important, the
solar panel. do you know what that is? no. that s my best possession. that was one of the solar panels that jimmy carter put on the white house in 1979 and ronald reagan took down in 1985 because he wanted manlier forms of energy. it s not that we lack germ and china have better technology. that and put it in his private museum in china? i love that story. we have the technology. we have the entrepreneurs. we just don t have the political will to do anything with it because we ve got the koch brothers and exxon and everybody else in the way. we also have a reflexive ideological resistance to government playing a big role. i actually talked to mitt romney s policy director a few weeks before the election. i asked him, you know, what do you think government can do to make coal cleaner, carbon capturing sequestration by doesn t exist on a usable scale. he said i don t think government should play a role at all. there you go.