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.
The answer is No
This user is surely negative
https://old.reddit.com/user/greenman5252/
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
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!
Rip @Sasanka_of_Gauda @ABC and other sexy Indian dudes
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https://www.americanpurpose.com/blog/fukuyama/were-cooked/
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I just read the article
LMAO! Peak reddit book!
!bookworms !neolibs @johannesalthusius
Five million chinks will march to make the CCP stop their emissions
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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Heck of a necro you've got there.
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Sheer disgust at this shit would drive any man to necromancy, honestly.
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The last few chapters of the book are our protagonists flying in a dirigible, marveling about the beauty of our low carbon future
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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.
!engineering
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