The quest to trap carbon in stone

Re:The quest to trap carbon in stone by lstodd on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @08:04PM (#29720422)

Maybe it's a better idea to release massive amounts of N2 and O2 rather than chasing a 100ppm of CO2 here and there.

In, like, setting up petawatts of nuclear electrolysing plants that will split seawater into H2 and O2, where the gases will dilute the atmosphere enough that CO2 levels drop.

This harebrained idea is on par with those CCS projects, but has the nice side effect that the nukes can sometime later be repurposed to more useful things.

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Re:The quest to trap carbon in stone by chriswarbo on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @08:16PM (#29720523)

The nukes could run carbon capture plants. Or, even more directly, they could power homes, industry, charge electric cars, etc.

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