r/climatechange is not fond of carbon capturing

I just read the article

The crisis stimulates a shadowy underground movement called the Children of Kali that starts to assassinate executives of fossil fuel companies, blows up refineries, and shoots down airliners for their carbon output. Governments do not wait for international agreement, but on their own launch ambitious geo-engineering projects to do things like increase earth's albedo or slow the melting of Antarctic glaciers. The most important initiative carried out by Mary Murphy and her Ministry is to convince a group of central bankers to issue unlimited numbers of carbon coins, which in effect pay people to either not produce or sequester carbon. Rather than making money from pumping oil and gas, fossil fuel companies find that they can earn more profits keeping their reserves in the ground. In addition to reversing the climate crisis, these massive interventions permit governments to cap incomes and institute something like universal basic income, so that everyone is protected from the huge economic disruptions that take place.

LMAO! Peak reddit book!

!bookworms !neolibs @johannesalthusius

The massive economic downturn provoked by the effective withdrawal of liquidity produces global unemployment higher than that of the Great Depression, but it lasts less than a year as central banks create massive amounts of liquidity and are put under the effective control of the people of their respective countries. After being kidnapped and held hostage at one Davos conference, the world's elites are safely released and agree to climb onboard with the policies demanded by their kidnappers. Five million people spontaneously march on Tiananmen Square and force the Communist Party to work to save the planet instead of prioritizing economic growth. At the same time that they deal with the climate crisis, governments around the world cap wealth and implement something like universal basic income.

Five million chinks will march to make the CCP stop their emissions

The assassinations of corporate executives and the downing of commercial airliners does not lead to repression of the eco-terrorists, but rather convinces people that they should travel by steamship and dirigible instead

Again with the r-slurred cute twink dirigible and sailboat idea. No one is going to travel by those again unless we completely ran out of fossil fuels.

then figure out how to get the soda back out

Capture is the easy part (plants do it), storage is the hard part.

So you capture a bunch of CO2, put it into a tank. Then what? Convert it? Think of any form of carbon you find in nature, aside from diamond/graphite practically every other carbon form is unstable in the environment and gets converted back to CO2 eventually.

So regardless of capture method, you have to store it geologically, a mile deep under continental mountains for example. Super expensive.

It just makes no sense to do carbon capture coal plants when you can build CANDU reactors or whatever

But development of the technology may lead to some breakthroughs.

These are the same soys who sneed uncontrollably when terraforming is brought up.

"THE HUBRIS! We already messed up the Earth!"

If you don't understand why it's stupid, pour a can of coke into your bathtub full of water and then figure out how to get the soda back out.

If governments were taxing me for putting soda in the bathtub, I'd probably find a solution

niggess you already used a little magic box that thinks a million times faster than you to communicate with a bunch of r-slurs across the world.

Everything is doable if power is cheap.

Might it have some more interest if you put it right at the carbon output? i.e. at the chimney of a coal plant or whatever. At this point, the air has a higher concentration of CO2.

There's still the storage part to take into account at the end.

We're going to compress all the carbons down into a liquid resin and make warhammer armies out of them

Use a dropper thing to pick up one drop of coke at a time and make sure to ignore all the water droplets

Gas chromatography ya slow butt bish

argument from ignorance.

Krugman's still employed, after all.

!bookworms thoughts?

Worth mentioning KSR is a socialist (DSA member and donor lol)

The only activist-acceptable solutions to climate change always just so happen to have 90% overlap with communism. Really makes you think.

It's important to admit there is not going to be any “degrowth”, the public wants to tackle climate change but they're not willing to do so if it leads to a decline in their lifestyles.

Reducing emissions by replacing coal, oil and gas with renewables is the most important part but carbon capturing and geoengineering research must also be kept on the table

!engineering