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@jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

How Much Energy Would It Take to Pull Carbon Dioxide out of the Air?

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How Much Energy Would It Take to Pull Carbon Dioxide out of the Air?

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@jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago
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A physicist runs the math on direct air capture and warns: This tech won't save us from climate catastrophe.
  • @Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    43•1 year ago

    None. They are called trees. We should stop wrecking things.

    • @Giooschi@lemmy.world
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      24•1 year ago

      To be fair trees still use energy for doing this, but that energy is conveniently provided by the sun.

      • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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        10•1 year ago

        If humans could make a profit off of killing the sun, they would.

        • @treadful@lemmy.zip
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          3•1 year ago

          We should try with solar farms

          • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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            3•1 year ago

            How does that destroy the sun? Unless I have the wrong idea of what a solar farm is. I’m imagining a big ol’ flat farmland in the middle of kansas with thousands of solar panels.

            • @treadful@lemmy.zip
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              1 year ago

              By stealing its photons!

              (it’s a joke)

          • @Rakonat@lemmy.world
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            1•1 year ago

            Dyson swarm goes brrrt.

            I know it’s not killing the sun, but we’d be hogging up all that sunlight from other planets in the solar system.

            • @NegativeInf@lemmy.world
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              1•1 year ago

              Eh, the only other places in the solar system that could have life get the heat from tidal forces. I don’t think they will miss a bit of solar energy.

        • @BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world
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          2•1 year ago

          “Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun.” - Mr. Burns

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