Direct conversion of CO2 to solid carbon by Gallium-based liquid metals

Re:Direct conversion of CO2 to solid carbon by Gallium-based... by dataflow on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @05:12AM (#29991823)

I imagine it would need to be government funded, not for private enterprise. If the order of magnitude of the costs they mention are to be taken at face value ($80M/year), for the entire world, it would be absolutely trivial for the government to fund, so I don't think expect any commercial enterprise would necessarily be forced to align this with its mission.

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Re:Direct conversion of CO2 to solid carbon by Gallium-based... by denton-scratch on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @07:28AM (#29992748)

> For the entire world, it would be absolutely trivial for the government to fund

Which government? Is that some hypothesised World Government?

The UK Government runs a lot of the forestry in this country. It is run as a commercial timber operation. The Brazilian and Indonesian governments appear to be committed to commercial exploitation of enormous amounts of old-growth rainforest timber. The Polish and Hungarian governments are also committed to logging old-growth.

There's no time left for this kind of dreaming.

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Re:Direct conversion of CO2 to solid carbon by Gallium-based... by dataflow on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @07:37AM (#29992818)

> Which government? Is that some hypothesised World Government?

I meant the US government. But you can insert lots of other governments in there, including the UK like you mentioned.

> There's no time left for this kind of dreaming.

Nobody's dreaming. I'm just talking about the feasibility, not claiming anything about the likelihood.

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