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by adam0c 1792 days ago
TL;DR

Lets bury our carbon waste using plants, not address the issues that we're burning fossil fuels and creating carbon waste at an increasingly alarming rate or focus on renewable clean recyclable energy...

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Hm. I perfectly understand cynicism, because I'm very good at it myself. (At least I think so.)

However, in this case I'm of a different opinion. Let's put aside the sluggishness of going totally green/eco/sustainable/whatever for a moment and think about what would happen if we managed to do it in an instant, like now.

Then this would still be a usable and sensible thing to do, because right now it looks like we are very, very late to the game, and every little thing counts.

In my opinion this would even make sense if produced as sort of artificial zeolites produced by atmospheric carbon capture by whichever industrial process, even nuclear powered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeolite

edit: thinking about it, though slightly off-topic in this context is another path to carbon sequestration I remember:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Vesta via spreading this stuff on beaches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivine

Green Beaches!

For your amusement: The Fifth Element-Green 1m4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFeLDc2CzOs

Word Up? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjAantupsA 4m39s