Winter Arc

Though I am forever grateful for not having social media, the concept of “Winter Arc” seems to be trending as Eddie and his friend Weston have decided to train every Monday at Nordic Wellness Almedal. Since they are under 13, I need to accompany them, something that I obviously do not mind as it gives me some extra gym time. Today, I was able to row the first 5k of the month as I look back on a total of 52 hours of training in November, including 5,640 meters of elevation gain, which I guess qualifies as a winter arc of sorts.

In the real world, Vattenfall just cancelled all carbon capture projects in Sweden. As in other countries, the exact reasons behind the cancellation remain unclear. In what mostly sounds like circular reasoning, Vattenfall simply says that "the market for carbon dioxide capture is immature” and that the costs are too high. With the Swedish government now throwing more than three billion EUR at different bio-energy carbon capture projects, one would otherwise assume that there would be a business case to be made here. 

Ultimately, without effective carbon capture technologies, it will be extremely costly, if at all possible, to rein in climate change. With the Swedish government stopping new offshore wind in the Baltic due to security concerns, and endlessly procrastinating on new nuclear, I am afraid that I was am quickly proven right in my suggestion that ecomodernist thinking “risks becoming nothing but an excuse for inaction”.