Which according to thermo, is about as much as we got out of burning them, assuming 100% efficiency. I think there's a little bit of wiggle room if you can find a low energy compound to turn it into, but it's still going to be a lot. And it can't be a neutralized acid like formate or bicarbonate. Maybe add H2 and do some electrochem to make oxalic acid? It's a powder, which would be a bonus for disposal.

That’s nothing. My mother-in-law can find a way to suck the fun out of anything and turn it into a bummer.

Wait until scientists find out about trees

No, but the weather history backs it. Like, I don't understand why it's so hard for people to grasp that just because La Niña ends so do strong hurricane. The 2005 hurricane season is a great example.

Good to know. I was curious.

Lime (CaO+H2O—>Ca(OH)2) is derived from limestone (CaCO3). So, you need to release CO2 to make lime, which can then capture CO2 again. No net gain of CO2 fixation.

Well we mine limestone by the shit ton. Lime water gives you CaOH. What would it take to adjust? I'm not a chemist so I have no idea. It also just happens that my underground limestone mine also has a layer about 100' above the limestone layer filled with salt water. It rains from the ceiling.

EXCERPT: "...The grants will help independent businesses increase production of American-made fertilizer, which will spur competition, give U.S. farmers more choices and fairer prices and reduce dependence on unreliable foreign sources like Russia and Belarus....

There it is. Belarus & Russia provide about 40% of all the potash in the world.Throw China into the mix and it's about 60%

And you can forget getting potash from Russia and Belarus now with the UKR war raging and US and worldwide sanctions in effect.

As a result, prices have already jumped by a factor of 5 and 6 and will only get worse.

If the world has a shortage of Potash, because of the highly industrialized nature of our farming, it's a train wreck. Global food security will suffer.

Peter Zeihan talks about it a bit on his youtube channel. He thinks up to a billion people could starve if it all goes to hell. (admittedly this is worst case)

As another Redditor noted, (wabbit) yes it is a little late but better late than never. They are throwing 500MM at it and that number will probably go up.

Humans are resiliant. It will get a bit better everyday

I'm doing a lot better than you would expect. Thank you <3

The sooner people accept that carbon sequestration will require enough energy to reduce CO2 back to hydrocarbons, the sooner we will accept that the elimination fossil fuels is inevitable.

Again, usa is as bad as China, SA and Iran when it come to HR violations. That is why no one gives a damn when US pretends to be the moral police.

Im sorry for the loss you endured.

I know...when my dad died my stepmom moved on like it was nothing was dating 2 weeks later and she completely washed her hands of me and got a restraining order too. It was like I lost two parents.

Unfortunately, without knowing any of the details of the process, we can know that this route will not fix the CO2 issue. There literally isn't enough base available on earth to turn the excess CO2 into bicarbonate. We'd turn the oceans as acidic as lemon juice first.

I wish there was a video out there putting into perspective just how much CO2 is under discussion, and what practical limitations that imposes on what routes may and may not work when trying to fix the issue.

Then we can just make more baking soda!

I’ll tell my wife your story.

Yeah. These political agendas really get out of hand. It's like all people care about, nothin' else matters.

But what else is new?

Exactly. I am so disappointed in the people who call themselves my fellow Christians. SO many of them forgot that peace and love were cornerstones of the religion, and that jesus preached to forgive and to not judge others because nobody is perfect.

And then I get on reddit and get to read that all christians are evil. If I say something about it I'm thrown in with them and labelled as evil as well.

I guaruntee someone is going to read this and attack me for being religious. It'd be the first time it didn't happen I think.

I just want us to get along :/ People need to stop blaming people for the sins of their fathers. I'm not evil just because someone who said they were part of my group was evil. You know what we call that idea? Prejudice.

They're using religion as an excuse to further their agenda. We Christians are not your enemy, the republicans are. Hell, I hate even saying that because if not for people putting themselves in these warring groups we could actually get shit done. I just wish people wanted to work together.

I wasn’t as premie as this baby.

My family has a condition that predisposes towards premature delivery. My grandmother had three premature births where the babies died within a few days. My mother was the fourth. She survived because she was born in 1964. Her siblings were born before the technology existed to save them.

My mother was not expected to live, and if she did she was expected to have significant issues. She was a “miracle” baby - she became a physician.

By the time I was born, being as premature as my mother was not as significant because science had advanced so very far. I had a far better outlook than my mother did. So did my siblings. Every one born alive lived.

Today, being as premature as I was is considered relatively “good” as far as a premie birth goes. My own children will be in far less danger compared to what my aunts and uncles faced in the 1950s.

I like to think about what it was like in 1964, and imagine what it will be like when this baby is as old as my mother. It’s pretty cool to think about.

Well ain't that some shit

Touché

Is this not about a year late in making this decision?

Can it done cheaply and on scale? Then it's the uplifting news.

Otherwise it's one of the many PoC that work but are unfeasible.