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Important point from paper abstract: >The pathway is up to five times more efficient than the in vivo rates of the most common natural carbon fixation pathway.
by highd 10y ago
Important point from paper abstract:
>The pathway is up to five times more efficient than the in vivo rates of the most common natural carbon fixation pathway.
Pretty awesome depending on how tight that "up to" bound is. As an aside, this sort of thing is why I don't worry too much about climate change - once the incentives become real I'm very confident in societies ability to invent solutions. Maybe, say, a star-trek-tier global weather control system :) The primary risk with that attitude would be if our best solutions are local in nature - this would likely result in impoverished countries and cities suffering the major brunt of climate change.
- stevenkovar 10y agoI'd like to think that as we become a more globalized society, it would be in our best interests to keep every region protected from CO2 proliferation—the 'rising tides lift all ships' philosophy.
- AnimalMuppet 10y ago"Rising CO2 lifts all thermometers"?
- Thrillington 10y agoI'd stick with the tides and ships as this is one of those rare times where the common metaphor could be both literal and ironic.
- ethbro 10y ago> The primary risk with that attitude would be if our best solutions are local in nature If the major ocean-based cycles are disrupted because of salinity change / warming / acidification, then it's not going to matter where the damage was done.
- etrautmann 10y agoThe time lag for noticing change and being able to respond may preclude the possibility of meaningful compensation
- maxerickson 10y agoA hurricane unleashes more power than humanity is currently harnessing. I doubt we figure out how to do anything that only works locally.
- raverbashing 10y agoYeah, I wonder when will we have a hurricane sized wind generator (with a huge set of batteries or other storage facility)
- zeristor 10y agoNot just that you can't predict where the hurricanes will go, you can't really have a pop-up generator to extract power from a hurricane can you. It is a bit extracting power from lightning strikes, it isn't going to be a good return on investment.
- raverbashing 10y agoBut hurricanes are big and affect a large area (you might be thinking of Tornadoes) Not easy, but maybe doable
- duaneb 10y agoPeople can already plant trees but don't. I don't worry about methods so much as humanity fucking itself over out of apathy.
- WalterBright 10y agoI'm a little surprised there aren't programs to plant trees in unused midwest prairie land. Once established, trees seem to do well there.
- Procrastes 10y agoGrowing up on the High Plains I only knew trees as carefully maintained decoration and windbreaks that gale force winds, disease, lightning, hail and drought would make short work of without constant care. I remember my first trip to New York State where I was wondering about some trees blocking a view of an on ramp and why someone planted them there. Then it occurred to me. Nobody planted them. These were trees in the wild!
- korethr 10y agoIn the high plains, sure. Those areas are natural grasslands; they were grasslands before European settlers arrived and started clear-cutting forests to make room for farmland. However, east of the high plains, before the Mississippi, I'd think there'd be at least some room for new trees.
- WalterBright 10y agoI grew up in Kansas. There were plenty of trees in the towns, that were planted by the settlers. I didn't see any effort whatsoever at maintaining them. There were trees in our yard, and our house bordered a greenbelt of trees. They grew just fine without assistance.