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This is absolutely unreal progress. Twenty years ago people argued that this was impossible or at least could never be done economically.
by api 2y ago
This is absolutely unreal progress. Twenty years ago people argued that this was impossible or at least could never be done economically.
- namaria 2y agoYes it has been amazing seeing the economics change in real time. And I also love the fact that photosynthesizing ecosystems are going full circle now. Earth has evolved sun eating lifeforms and now these lifeforms are at last developing a sun eating civilization. All debate is mooted, the momentum is there and the economics work. We will all be energy rich in a couple of decades! It will surely help mitigate the impacts from all the carbon we've emitted so far.
- api 2y agoEven better our solar panels actually beat photosynthesis for conversion efficiency by at least 2X or sometimes more (depending on the plant you are comparing against). This is also a big reason that biofuels are a bad idea, other than that they compete with farmland and natural land.
- namaria 2y agoGood point. Biofuels were clearly a bad idea from any angle other than political virtual signaling. Rudimentary energy accounting was sufficient to show it's basically greenwashing the oil sunk into the process rather than harnessing the sun.