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2 Mitigation and Adaptation
2 Mitigation and Adaptation
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" Shoemaker observed that "even if we did everything to mitigate climate change today, we'd still be living with 30 years of wild weather" due to past emissions of greenhouse gases. Adaptation will therefore be essential, both through the engineering of hard infrastructure and through nature-based solutions.
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Furthermore, carbon mineralization can help immobilize heavy metals like arsenic, copper, and cadmium, thereby reducing heavy metal pollution. Another way to isolate carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is to inject it into rock formations deep underground.
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Jeffrey Bielicki at Ohio State University and his colleagues have been studying the use of carbon dioxide to store energy underground, whether as heat in a geological formation, heat in a carrier fluid, or mechanical energy. "They have determined that subsurface energy storage has enormous capacity and energy discharge potential," she said.
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For example, a company that he founded, Turbine Logic, does this for solar farms and gas-fired power plants, with significant applications in monitoring and diagnostics to make the grid more resilient. "It's probably an $80 billion market per year, simply using better analytics to operate what we have more efficiently." Because of the breakneck growth of AI, the energy that AI computer chips consume is also growing at a very rapid pace, and the engineering community has a role in reducing this energy usage, said Washington.
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"We need to not just think about today but about 5 to 10 years from now and how technology will shape what our lives will look like." CORPORATE INITIATIVES In 2019 Amazon cofounded the Climate Pledge and announced its commitment to achieve net zero carbon emissions across its business by 2040. The overarching goal, said Amazon's Ken Washington, is net zero not just for Amazon's business operations but for the full impact of its business, from the acquisition of materials to the manufacturing, shipment, energy use, and disposal or other postuse of its products.
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"We as engineers and technologists have to step up and make it easy for people to do the right thing when it comes "We as engineers and to sustainability." For example, the technologists have to step up badging program on Amazon's web and make it easy for people to do site makes it easier for customers to the right thing when it comes to pick low-energy devices, and tech sustainability." nology can help shift activities to periods when energy use has less of an impact. "Technology has to play a huge role in making it easy to do the right thing." Other companies are taking or could take similar steps to limit climate change, including companies that sell their products on Amazon's platform.
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