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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Next weeks news: same engineers mysteriously all committed suicide by two bullets to the back of each of their heads. Big oil has no comment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If this discovery was really a thing you can bet it!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I am concerned about the growing mountain of miracle devices that are meant to solve climate change, and the environmental effects said mountain is having on climate change.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So they expect home users to handle liquid potassium or sodium formate? Isn't that quite hazardous?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Well, yes and no. Most likely its adoption would be where petroleum stations start creating it on site and selling like a carbon neutral gasoline. Energy has to come from somewhere, so it will probably take solar power to store as fomate and sell as fuel

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't see how using the carbon again as fuel solves anything.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

If you recycle existing carbon from the atmosphere then you're not adding more carbon. So, in that sense it's better.