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Could be. So over the mentioned four weeks, the algae is reproducing more cells in sunlight, and emitting light at night, while gradually wearing out in some wa
by card_zero 5mo ago
Could be. So over the mentioned four weeks, the algae is reproducing more cells in sunlight, and emitting light at night, while gradually wearing out in some way and "retaining 75% of their brightness". Then at the end of the month you have a bucket of tired algae, and that's the stored carbon. I don't know what you do with it. You probably shouldn't chuck it in a river. Its likely fate is methane, wherever you put it.
- californical 5mo agoThat sounds kinda like carbon capture, but decentralized to these light nodes
- card_zero 5mo agoIt seems to me that it has the same problem as carbon capture, which is how to make the result inert, or which deep hole to pump it into. Two people apparently silently disagreed with this, I wonder what was bothering them?
- gostsamo 5mo agoif the output is consistent, could be used for producing biofuel or plastic.
- kang 5mo agoUnlike artificial carbon capture, natural carbon capture like algae here become insect/worm/bird feed or manure/coal.
- jurgenburgen 5mo ago“Hello, I’m from the algae company. I came to replace your tired algae with a fresh one.”