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Capturing carbon from the air is what plants and rain already do. And have been doing for a considerable amount of time. Almost certainly that will already be
by neilwilson 4y ago
Capturing carbon from the air is what plants and rain already do. And have been doing for a considerable amount of time.
Almost certainly that will already be the optimum solution, or evolution would probably have found a better one by now.
What we need are ocean based limestone creating factories. That's the solution nature uses.
- rcxdude 4y agoWhy would evolution be optimising for capturing carbon? It doesn't seem related to the survival of the trait.
- neilwilson 4y agoHow do plants make their food?
- Asraelite 4y agoHistorically, evolution's solution to drastic ecological changes has been mass extinction events followed by recovery periods of millions of years. There are plenty of easy solutions to climate change, but none of them are fast.
- imtringued 4y agoThe problem we are trying to solve is keeping the co2 stored somewhere. In the past there were no wood eating fungi which meant forests were really good at co2 sequestration. That is no longer true, plants alone cannot get rid of excess CO2 anymore so we need humans to do something.
- neilwilson 4y agoCome on, think about it a bit. How does limestone form?