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1. Hacker News 50 (hn50@social.lansky.name)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 01:31:04 JST Hacker News 50

   Solar Energy Solves Global Warming

   Link: https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/solar-energy-solves-global-warming
   Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36681491

   • teknomunk (teknomunk@apogee.polaris-1.work)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 01:31:02 JST teknomunk

     in reply to

     • of nothing
     @apropos @hn50
     
     > Oh look! A tax on growing plants!
     
     Can these people do anything except increase the power of centralized government?
     
     > You need a CO2 concentrator
     
     I'm going to plug liquid air energy storage here, because the CO2 capture is a byproduct of energy storage (the CO2 will solidify and gunk the works if not removed).
     
     > only big cost is energy
     
     Yes, it is. Short of practical fusion, you aren't going to fix this.
     
     > makes methane
     
     Well, at least it stores well.
   • of nothing (apropos@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 01:31:03 JST of nothing

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     @hn50
     Q: hey environmentalists how's it going?
     A: WE MUST SAVE THE PLANET BY MAKING MORE PLASTIC
     >The article then goes on to explain that solar + co2 capture results in methane. But isn't this at best co2 neutral? Since nearly all use-cases for methane would release the co2 again and would make the credits' comparison pointless?
     
     >I think they mention it further down, but some fraction of methane isn't burned but turned into things like plastic and other industrial chemicals.
     >>And not all of it will be re-released into the atmosphere. As we saw in the Ocean Farming article, some of it will sink in the oceans13 . Even today, 3% of methane is not burned, but used in other ways like plastics production, thus leaving the carbon cycle altogether...
     A: YES PRAISE THE EARTH, CARBON HAS LEFT THE CYCLE AND BECOME PLASTIC
     jesus christ you guys
     Machismo repeated this.