RE: Carbon sucker
October 19, 2018 at 6:11 am
(This post was last modified: October 19, 2018 at 6:15 am by Fake Messiah.)
(October 17, 2018 at 5:17 pm)Dr H Wrote: To me, this sounds a lot like an advertisement for this guy's business
Well what did you expect? This is the society we live in. It's not like the government has a project trying to solve this problem, it's all left to private entrepreneurs.
(October 17, 2018 at 5:17 pm)Dr H Wrote: As far as converting vehicles to this new fuel, that concept has been around for decades."Yeah, just look at Brazil.
(October 17, 2018 at 5:17 pm)Dr H Wrote: Reminds me of the loudly touted move away from incandescent light bulbs.
Well, if we are talking about reminiscent things, this reminds me more of the electric car. I remember the last decade there was this documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?" (2006) which was about this apparent conspiracy governments have against electric cars which showed people in the industry talking against electric cars and hobby people making their own electric cars that seemed to defy what these serious people were saying. Then I also remember watching in 2009 a German documentary called Strom im Tank - Wo bleibt das Elektroauto? which gathered some CEOs from car companies that all said how electric car is a pipe-dream and won't be viable for decades to come. That, yes, some companies have electric cars but it's all for showrooms and not for practical and let alone public use. And yet it was all already a year after first Tesla car came out - and yet even at that time nobody took it seriously. And even now those established car companies still struggle to offer an electric car that could match Tesla.
So it is hard to say what is going on with this carbon sucking energy. Technically it is possible, but since it is all left to private businesses we more or less have to take their word for it. If you want to be cynical you can be and if you want to be optimistic I guess it is too early. But should this all be abandoned? Or should there be government funded programs that perhaps have bigger chances of developing it?
Are there perhaps some other solutions? Like could Sahara be irrigated using mirror solar energy and planted with new rain-forest? It seems very much so that it was even featured in that new "Cosmos" TV series how some guy during ww1 was going to do it but then they melted his stuff to cannons.
There was also some other segment on Vice and are you optimistic about this?
I mean imagine if this amount of clean energy was available we could suck carbon from air and join it with hydrogen for almost no price at all - but again, it's all left to private businesses to develop.
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