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The Sabatier reaction is completely safe. Here [1] is a video of a few kids doing it completely manually with a couple of syringes, a pipe, and a torch. Produci

The Sabatier reaction is completely safe. Here [1] is a video of a few kids doing it completely manually with a couple of syringes, a pipe, and a torch. Producing methane is one of the huge benefits. Methane is just a normal fuel - use it to generate electricity, for your oven/stove, heating, whatever. But at home if all you want is CO2 removal then just use some lye, soda lime, or a million other simple capture technologies. Not quite as sexy, but it'll get the job done. <rant> There's no grand technologies required for any of these things. The only reason it's not done at scale is the same reason we can't have nice things in general. Governments are far more interested in war and cock measuring contests than actually solving problems. We spent literally trillions of dollars on Iraq and Afghanistan, and the latest wars will probably dwarf that. Just imagine all the crazy sci-fi scale of things we could have done with all that money. Alas, humanity seems to be running on loop, except now we have nukes, paired alongside what are likely some of the most idiotic 'leaders' in centuries. Want to know the answer to the Fermi Paradox? </rant> [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdNPkW9I0fQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdNPkW9I0fQ

OutOfHere 2y ago
Well said. The root cause as I see it is the nature of money used by the people. If money were gold or bitcoin or a similar limited commodity, with a sufficient layer of anonymization, also with global validity and use, then many of these problems would not happen because the governments just would not have so much money to waste. The governments use their guns to enforce that we use their money instead which is prone to heavy inflation and excessive taxation. Reasonable taxation can still exist even with gold/bitcoin via property taxes. We do not have financial freedom.

OutOfHere 2y ago

Well said. The root cause as I see it is the nature of money used by the people. If money were gold or bitcoin or a similar limited commodity, with a sufficient layer of anonymization, also with global validity and use, then many of these problems would not happen because the governments just would not have so much money to waste. The governments use their guns to enforce that we use their money instead which is prone to heavy inflation and excessive taxation. Reasonable taxation can still exist even with gold/bitcoin via property taxes. We do not have financial freedom.