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Just leave a gap in the swarm for the light the earth needs (or have mirrors in the greater swarm rotate to do the same, if cheaper). You can make hydrocarbons
by inkblotuniverse 5y ago
Just leave a gap in the swarm for the light the earth needs (or have mirrors in the greater swarm rotate to do the same, if cheaper).
You can make hydrocarbons from c02 and water. Make digging up carbon illegal, so that only legal way to get your jet fuel is to buy it from a machine that makes it from the air (e.g. carbon-neutral fuels).
- kergonath 5y ago> You can make hydrocarbons from c02 and water. Under high temperature and pressure conditions, with expensive catalysts (I’ve had a grant to work on one of these processes a couple of years ago). It is completely uneconomical unless most government tax emissions very heavily one way or another. Besides, this does not solve the capture bit, which is also a significant challenge, in similar ways (we have ideas about technologies, thermodynamics do not work in our favour, it would still require radical policies for it to work). Nobody is going to wave their magic wand and make fossil fuels illegal anytime soon. It is a common techno-euphoria trap: technology is the easy bit, and we’re not there yet on that front. Policy is the struggle after that, and it is much more difficult.