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Entropy? Never heard of it. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I think you have to cut them down and bury them (or at least don’t burn them) for the carbon to “go away”.

That’s how it got underground to begin with.

Still until we actually 100% switch everything we could power off solar and wind to solar and wind, active carbon capture doesn’t make sense, sense we could use that clean energy for direct purposes instead of cleanup. I’m not sure we will ever have “excess energy” like that, we will always rather use it for something other than cleaning up our mess, like AI.

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

yes, you are correct, it makes more sense to focus on electrifying our big consumers first.

however, cleaning up could happen eventually. maybe some politician in the future will sell it as some "jobs program" or sth.