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Re:MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide ... by xracy on Saturday February 04, 2023 @06:56PM (#34659851)
Citation Needed;

> Excess of CO2 in atmosphere is not necessarily bad thing.

This runs counter to everything we know about climate change.

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Re:MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide ... by jeejay on Sunday February 05, 2023 @07:33AM (#34664412)
Check Lehninger "Principles of Biochemistry". RuBisCo (most abundant enzyme in nature) fixates CO2 before they could be turned into sugars but this enzyme operates in suboptimal conditions at current CO2 concentrations. Thus increased CO2 concentration would improve crop yields.
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