carbonguy

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by carbonguy 6y ago
I too took particular issue with the second point; among other possible criticisms, the categorical statement that "the status quo is a bad thing" seems to completely miss the idea of "embedded wisdom." Surely this idea
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by carbonguy 6y ago
> Has anyone ever paid the individual price for an article? I would be very interested to see statistics on this, because I suspect the answer is "almost nobody" - as I assume your question was meant to imply. > ... [How] ma
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by carbonguy 6y ago
In your parent comment you asked: > Where the fuck is the actual case study about the structure of the system, constraints, influences, incentives? How does it evolve and how does the contract change and evolve that system? These are the
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by carbonguy 6y ago
> If 100,000 people are voting on a contract your 1/100,000th share of the influence functionally rounds to zero. Assuming that you make no effort to influence any of the hypothetical 100,000 people voting on the contract in any way
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by carbonguy 6y ago
Indeed! That's one of the reasons I wanted to try and estimate the cost of an air-to-fuel process.
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by carbonguy 6y ago
The advance described in the paper in question could turn out to have a fairly significant impact on the economics of an air-to-fuels process that includes it. For context: the paper describes an air-to-fuels system requires carbon dioxide
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by carbonguy 6y ago
You're correct: methane would not work well as a replacement for conventional aviation fuel both for the reason you mention (weight of storage system) as well as the lower energy density per unit volume: 35 MJ/L for jet fuel vs. 9
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by carbonguy 6y ago
Taking your questions in turn: 1) The conversion will always be energy-negative due to the laws of thermodynamics, as a sibling comment mentioned. This is true even of existing fossil fuels, though we tend not to think of it that way. 2) T
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by carbonguy 6y ago
The sibling comment from jeffbee is essentially correct, depending on which part of the "petroleum infrastructure" you're referring to in your comment: the price of extracting and burning fossil hydrocarbon fuels does not ref