Yeah, one of the most infuriating things, that we have to find ways for the people who caused the problem to profit from fixing it to get anything accomplished.
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disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The key to motivating a capitalist nation to participate in carbon capture is to first discover a way to monetize the captured carbon.
TheDoozer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
rockerface@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
What if we started a cryptocurrency that’s can only be mined by capturing carbon /s
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Holy shit that might work lol
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
until someone sets up a continous loop where it spews carbon into a sealed chamber which is captured, and then emitted again.
48954246@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Exactly. Paper straws are undoubtedly better for the environment but if they aren’t cheaper to make I will eat my own ass
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
That’s simple enough, create a process where CO2 is removed from the air and turned into oil. The chemistry of the individual steps is already known and achievable, the hard part is the energy input required to make it work.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Exactly. There are already several prototypes for products ranging from plastics to construction materials to butter (yes, really) made from captured carbon.
It needs to be profitable, desirable, and competitively priced (when applicable) for VCs to put their chips in the pot. That, we have yet to see.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
This is a bit of an issue when what they want out of the oil is the energy. If you have enough energy to make oil, why not just use the energy directly?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
the one vaguely sensible use case is as portable fuel, but then it raises questions such as “why do we still have combustion cars” and “don’t cars actually kinda suck? shouldn’t we be running more trains instead?”
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Yeah, hydrocarbons are probably going to be really good energy storage for airplanes and gas turbine generators. Outside of that, I don’t see much use for a rare, dirty, hot, energy source. Rockets I guess.