Yes, at one time about 20 years ago, there was a big push to plant trees. Trees take carbon dioxide out of the air to grow. I personally think we should grow more vegetables in greenhouses year round like the Netherlands. The Netherlands is the 3rd largest exporter of food behind the US and Canada. It is a very small country but produced a huge amount of Europes vegetables, not grains. In the US one acre of greenhouse can produce, in one year, about the same amount of produce as 10 acres. This would put a lot of land back into forest or even pasture for cattle production. Farmers will however, need tax cuts or incentives to build commercial grade greenhouses.
Another idea, but never developed is building greenhouses to grow algae and make algae fuels. Idea is you take carbon out of the air growing algae, but when you burn it as gasoline or diesel you put it back, so it is carbon neutral, thus not adding to the carbon dioxide. Greenhouses covering an area the size of Rhode Island could power the entire US gasoline and diesel vehicles, thus no need to go electric. Exxon said the fuel would cost about $4-5 a gallon at the pump, but this was when gasoline was $2 a gallon back when Trump was in office. It might be worth it now. Oh, and some algae species are 50% oil. Grow it, squeeze it out, refine it into diesel and gasoline.
Both of these ideas would be cheaper to implement than thousands of windmills, especially more expensive offshore windmills, upgrading the grid to handle these new windmills, battery backups which are expensive, etc.
Another would be to put modular nuke power plants where the old coal plants were.
Of course, I am not a lobbyist that can pay senators and representatives to vote another way, or not vote at all. Boy do we need term limits in congress and the senate.
There is also enough natural gas from cow manure in feed stalls and dairy farms to produce all the residential natural gas in America. It is normally just vented into the air, which gets trapped at high altitudes and causes warming, more so than carbon dioxide. Why not just trap it, filter it, and pump it into the natural gas system and burn it. Less so called global warming. Again, it costs about twice what drilled or fracked natural gas costs, but it is available. Also, by using it, this would shut up the people not wanting us to eat beef or use dairy products. Got to fight back somehow.
I have long advocated putting solar panels over flat topped buildings and parking lots instead of farmland. Or even over the interstates. We have 1 mile of paved road for every square mile of land in America. Wasted solar power above them and the dark asphalt contributes to global warming also. Keep the roads cool with solar panel covers. Elon Musk has stated that a 100 mile by 100 mile area of the Nevada desert covered with solar panels could power the entire US, but transmission of this power to where it is needed is the biggest hurdle. So, just use the roads, parking lots, and building tops and cover them with solar panels. They are making solar panels now out of flexible film, very thin and easier to handle. Might have to avoid tornado alley, due to hail and high winds, but most people live on the east and west coasts with a lot of roads and flat top buildings. Walmart in Arizona put solar panels on top of one of their super centers. It produced enough power to power all of this Walmart's refrigeration and freezer equipment, as well as their lights and heating and air condition, and still had enough left over power for 200 homes. This was not even covering their parking lot for nice shady parking under solar panels. Walmart said they were going to use solar over all their southwestern Walmart's to save power costs.
Off my soapbox.
