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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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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    • 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?

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  • TheDoozer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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  • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What if we started a cryptocurrency that’s can only be mined by capturing carbon /s

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    • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Holy shit that might work lol

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  • 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

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• Konn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is encouraging if they’re onto something! I’ve been obsessing over it lately, finding some way to actually recycle or at least destroy plastic. Sadly I don’t have that kind of background.

  There isn’t gonna be “profit” in this. But man, people are voluntarily putting subdermal chips in themselves to become diet-cyborgs, and gene-hacking plants together in their garages.

  Ironically, look at 3D printing and how that exploded! (As well as the very niche research into spooling plastic bottles and stuff into filament!)

  Plastics up-cycling or elimination has to be headed by hobbyist hacker types more than anything. It won’t get the grants, it won’t get the government sign-offs, and in sheer mind-blowing stupidity, waste production is projected to increase exponentially in the next coming years.

  There’s plenty of people with hard science degrees getting ignored for jobs, getting radicalized just by looking out their window. I know it’s a complicated subject, but coordinating efforts like distributed protein folding and I dunno, limited use of LLM to scientifically predict things…

  People way smarter than me gotta be on this already right? We gotta figure this out and open-source it to anybody and everybody who wants to deploy it, before the world’s big players has a chance to do anything to stop us.

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