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Mechanical carbon capture is a joke. There's no way it can scale enough to be measurable. It also requires energy - coming from where? Trees, on the other hand
by WalterBright 6mo ago
Mechanical carbon capture is a joke. There's no way it can scale enough to be measurable. It also requires energy - coming from where?
Trees, on the other hand, can scale, and they get their energy from the sun.
- a_t48 6mo agoWind! Venus is full of it. (Making it so that your wind power can survive corrosion and the high speeds is an exercise left to the reader)
- WalterBright 6mo agoIn order for a windmill to work, it has to be anchored. There's no wind if you're floating in it.
- a_t48 6mo agoSpitballing here, you might be able to use some sort of floating wind turbine, and trail it out on a long enough cable to catch a different windstream. There's all sorts of reasons why it's a pretty terrible idea.