@nuclearshill's comment on 'r/climatechange is not fond of carbon capturing :soysnooseethe: :soyjaktantrumfast:'

r/climatechange is not fond of carbon capturing :soysnooseethe:

https://old.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/1csszro/will_sucking_carbon_from_air_ever_really_help/

Short answer: no

Long answer: noooooooooo

Detailed explanation: No, because definitely not.

If they think it's unfeasible (we don't have the tech currently to do it on a large scale) they should at least explain their reasons

No. It's mostly smoke and mirrors. Why are fossil fuel companies so interested in this technology? They use the captured CO2 to extract additional oil from wells. It's just another distraction to avoid the elephant in the room and continue business as usual.

:marseymad#: :#marseyprotestno:

The answer is No

:#marseyno:

This user is surely negative

https://old.reddit.com/user/greenman5252/

>comments in /r/adulting, collapse, WDP, :marseyreading:

I'm a chemist working on the (electro)conversion of CO2 into economically valuable products. In my opinion, making this process profitable would be the only way to convince big companies to significantly invest in the process. I can tell you that we are far from making the process economically viable

Edit: to clarify, I'm not defending that we should prioritize the economy. I'm saying that that's what policy makers/ big companies prioritize, so it won't happen until the process is profitable, which is far from now. We thus rely on different approaches to mitigate climate change

A sensible comment

Bonus on doomering about millions dying in India during heat waves just a few years from now

https://old.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/1ct9dhj/fatal_heat_waves_are_testing_indias_ability_to/

We are going to have a heat wave combined with power failure that kills millions by the end of the decade.

You get a wet bulb temp weather system that settles over a city for a couple days, and the power system goes down.

The opening chapter of the novel "The Ministry for the Future" is a description of just this scenario, and it is hands down one of the most horrifying things I have ever read.

Yup that chapter was sickeningly realistic

The heat wave deaths are then followed by a massive pandemic as millions of corpses liquefy in the heat. The whole city would be a biohazard for a long time

I just started this book yesterday and this post made me do a double take. I had a moment of like, “wait…that's too real”

!bookworms JUST LIKE KSR THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE! :#soysnoo4:

Rip @Sasanka_of_Gauda @ABC and other sexy Indian dudes :#marseypajeetitsover: :#marseychudindian:

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Elon_SUSk COOL/NlGGA 6mo ago #6413352

The Ministry for the Future"

:m#arseysalendofherstory:

https://www.americanpurpose.com/blog/fukuyama/were-cooked/

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nuclearshill gau/cho Elon_SUSk 5mo ago #6501745 Edited 5mo ago

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! :#marseyxd: :#marseysmoothbrain:

!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.

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Cantor_Dust they/them New, but I'm learning! nuclearshill 5mo ago #6502605

The last few chapters of the book are our protagonists flying in a dirigible, marveling about the beauty of our low carbon future :marseyxd:

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nuclearshill gau/cho Cantor_Dust 5mo ago #6502635 Edited 5mo ago

Dirigibles might be a good idea to transport cargo by air but there are downsides. Ignoring the whole hydrogen or helium debate (helium is scarce and typically collected from natural gas deposits so is not carbon free, therefore filling them with hydrogen is the greener option), they are vulnerable to bad weather.

But still, aviation accounts for 2.5% of greenhouse gases emissions so the idea is extremely r-slurred. We'll ban cars that run on gas long before even considering banning airplanes.

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