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The solution is to dump money into R&D and figure out how to "scoop" the C02 out of the air and then break it apart into carbon and oxygen. A series of solar po

The solution is to dump money into R&D and figure out how to "scoop" the C02 out of the air and then break it apart into carbon and oxygen. A series of solar powered drones could hopefully do this. This may sound far fetched, but I think global political action before its too late is even more far fetched. Send the money into DARPA and call it increased defense spending to appease the elephants.

dredmorbius 8y ago
We know these methods. They're not high-tech. Swamps, wetlands, tropical rainforests. The same landforms which are most under assault by human activity. http://www.esassoc.com/projects/wetlands-carbon-sequestration http://www.esassoc.com/projects/wetlands-carbon-sequestratio... https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=carbon%20sequestration%20wetlands&btnG=Search&as_sdt=800000000001&as_sdtp=on https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=carbon%20sequestration%... https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2002GB001917 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2002... https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C39&q=carbon+sequestration+swamps&btnG= https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C39&q=car... https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/environment-and-development-economics/article/simulating-options-for-carbon-sequestration-through-improved-management-of-a-lowland-tropical-rainforest/E6F2DA439C2E0CAC5C5863E1B1FB3E7A https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/environment-and-deve... https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C39&q=carbon+sequestration+rainforest&btnG= https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C39&q=car...
- systematical 8y ago
  The hurdle isn't clean renewable or CO2 sinks, its Republicans. They don't want to vote on latte lefty soy-boy stuff like this. Which leads me back to my previous comment. Call it defense spending and scoop it out of the air.
dredmorbius 8y ago
And for fuel synthesis, seawater is a vastly more viable source, and the research more than a half-century old: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/28nqoz/electrical_fuel_synthesis_from_seawater_older/ https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/28nqoz/electri...

dredmorbius 8y ago

We know these methods. They're not high-tech. Swamps, wetlands, tropical rainforests. The same landforms which are most under assault by human activity. http://www.esassoc.com/projects/wetlands-carbon-sequestration http://www.esassoc.com/projects/wetlands-carbon-sequestratio... https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=carbon%20sequestration%20wetlands&btnG=Search&as_sdt=800000000001&as_sdtp=on https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=carbon%20sequestration%... https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2002GB001917 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2002... https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C39&q=carbon+sequestration+swamps&btnG= https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C39&q=car... https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/environment-and-development-economics/article/simulating-options-for-carbon-sequestration-through-improved-management-of-a-lowland-tropical-rainforest/E6F2DA439C2E0CAC5C5863E1B1FB3E7A https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/environment-and-deve... https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C39&q=carbon+sequestration+rainforest&btnG= https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C39&q=car...

systematical 8y ago
The hurdle isn't clean renewable or CO2 sinks, its Republicans. They don't want to vote on latte lefty soy-boy stuff like this. Which leads me back to my previous comment. Call it defense spending and scoop it out of the air.

dredmorbius 8y ago

And for fuel synthesis, seawater is a vastly more viable source, and the research more than a half-century old: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/28nqoz/electrical_fuel_synthesis_from_seawater_older/ https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/28nqoz/electri...