• BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
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        Are you talking about

        A scalable self replicating and self sustaining carbon capture technology that uses a mix of highly specialized biological processes to turn CO2 into engineering grade composite construction material, fuel and fertilizer.

        ?

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          You can’t earn the big money with it, so the capitalism isn’t interested. Planting a tree is almost for free. Maybe if we could file a patent on trees or something like that. Let’s ask Nestlé how they did it with water

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      Photosynthesis - provided by the OG solar cells.

      Yeah it won’t power my computer, just found the irony comical.

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        You could theoretically build a coal pit in your back yard to turn the wood into coal, then power a steam engine hooked to generators to make electricity to run your computer. If you wanna be super “efficient” you can route the gasses from the coal process through the steam engine too to get power from that as well

        Probably cleaner and less work to do almost any other kind of power though

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            7 months ago

            Almost… Nuclear comes from super-novae, therefore not strictly “solar” (in the sense coming from the sun) but loosely yeah everything comes from stars and star formation

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      The majority of panels produced in the world right now is China. Like dwarfs the other countries.

      Big oil currently does not own the factories.

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      Well yeah, but that’s like a one-time purchase (for years) compared to coals/etc. where they can charge for the “amount” used