Title: Challenges oftransitioning to renewable energy

by Joseph Powell

Teaser (Joe): Today, we ask can fossil fuels be used without emitting carbon?

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When carbon Burning carbon (do you mean fossil?) fuels are burned to release energy produces, carbon dioxide gas is formed wi.th weighing 250% more weightthan the fuel, which would require a .  A pressurized tank two and a half times larger than a car’s fuel tank would be needed forto capture that amount! That i’ is why we are investing in battery-electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles, which avoid on-board use of fossil carbon use., or consiAderand we exploreing renewable sources of carbon in bio- or synthetic fuels for jumbo jetuse inslarge aircrafts.  In the future, we can save fossil fuels could be reserved for use in large, stationary industrial plants where carbon can be captured and stored underground for thousands of years. Carbon capture and storage or “CCS”, can be used in combinationcombined with electricity, hydrogen, and renewable carbon fuels to “will can help “decarbonize” our economy.   

I'm Joe Powell at the University of Houston Energy Transition Institute. 

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