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Re:Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why by malfist on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:00PM (#46660869)
There was some promising research showing that you could recapture co2 and catalyze it into methane pretty efficiently. I wonder whatever happened to that.

It'd be nice if we could continue burning "fossil" fuels by recapturing and reusing. With enough solar power, the efficiencies don't matter a lot. And with reuse we wouldn't have to change any of our chemical processes or equipment that we've already built in the modern plastic era.

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Re:Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why by whimsicalism on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:16PM (#46661071)
condensing the co2 to the necessary concentrations to drive these reactions is basically never economical - we will need widespread energy abundance before non-organic based removal becomes viable.
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Re:Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why by eimrine on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:11PM (#46661006)
Don't lie. Converting burned fuel into unburned one is not as simple as oxidation-reduction reaction at all. But also the CO2 in atmosphere is spreaded. If you remind that we can mine the inert gasses from the atmosphere - the amount of energy is worth of consideration in that case.
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