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I agree with you. I've been thinking lately a bit about the scale of the problem we face. We essentially need to create enough carbon sinks that balance out al
by gonzo41 6y ago
I agree with you.
I've been thinking lately a bit about the scale of the problem we face. We essentially need to create enough carbon sinks that balance out all the oil and coal burned since the industrial revolution. Hopefully we do something with it all like build a giant coal brick pyramid.
It's really handy the sun shines light on us for free. I sort of have this crazy idea of turning large parts of the center of Australia into rain forest by using solar power desalinization plants to pump fresh sea water inland. But alas. Australia has carry over credits from Kyoto. She'll be right.
I'm going to reread all the Dune books in the holidays.
- WildParser 6y agoInstead of coal. Wouldn't plastics be a better storage material? -> Lego pyramid
- regularfry 6y agoThe problem with plastics is that (from hazy memory) producing 1kg of plastic might involve the release of 7kg of gaseous CO2. For plastics that are already produced, yes, that carbon's not going anywhere. Producing more plastic to sequester it would somewhat miss the point. Although a LEGO pyramid would be an amazing archaeological find to leave for future generations.
- WildParser 6y agoIt would be interesting to see the numbers for bioplastics like PLA. Growing starch-crops without fertilizers is probably the hard part. With these kind of bricks it would at least not be so difficult to motivate people to find appropriate storage facilities.
- bamboozled 6y agoAustralia shifts away from climate credit cheating. https://phys.org/news/2020-11-australia-shift-climate-credit.html https://phys.org/news/2020-11-australia-shift-climate-credit...