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Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air by thereisnospork on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @06:50PM (#38019355)
Your energy math, or its explanation, is incorrect. the embodied energy in CO2 is irrelevant - the comparison is of products and reactants, of which 'C' and 'O2' are neither.
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Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air by chinchilla2020 on Monday October 30, 2023 @07:12PM (#38077263)
Right. I was wondering why they are doing are chemical reactions on what should be a milling/grinding curve.

They are really pushing the stereotype that software engineers think they are smarter at physical sciences but are actually pretty clueless.

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