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Not sure we want to start competing with trees -- what if we get better than them at it? Do trees start dying for lack of CO2?
by btbuildem 10y ago
Not sure we want to start competing with trees -- what if we get better than them at it? Do trees start dying for lack of CO2?
- adrianN 10y agoIt's not like we couldn't stop if the CO2 levels dropped too far.
- btbuildem 10y agoJust like we are able to stop now, as the CO2 levels are life-threateningly high, right?
- undersuit 10y agoIf we could process enough CO2 to reverse current inputs(i.e. the equivalent of hundreds of billions of tree growth) we could possibly think about scaling up the process to remove all the CO2 from our atmosphere as fast as we can. But we won't run out of CO2 unless we take all the ethanol we're producing with the CO2 and store it, instead of generating energy from it via combustion.