How Much Energy Would It Take to Pull Carbon Dioxide out of the Air?
How Much Energy Would It Take to Pull Carbon Dioxide out of the Air?
A physicist runs the math on direct air capture and warns: This tech won't save us from climate catastrophe.
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None. They are called trees. We should stop wrecking things.
42 8 ReplyTo be fair trees still use energy for doing this, but that energy is conveniently provided by the sun.
24 0 ReplyIf humans could make a profit off of killing the sun, they would.
10 1 ReplyWe should try with solar farms
4 1 ReplyHow 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.
4 1 ReplyBy stealing its photons!
(it's a joke)
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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.
1 0 ReplyEh, 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.
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"Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun." - Mr. Burns
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