Carbon capture is cool, I just wish it wasn't mainly being used to create hydrocarbon fuel. If only there were some way to turn carbon from the air into, say, fibers, or building materials, or food, or medicine, all using solar power... Oh well, guess we gotta build these huge machines to literally make oil out of air, that'll surely save the environment

If we want to get *really* scifi, maybe these hypothetical carbon capture machines could construct *themselves* out of captured carbon, possibly using some kind of tiny pod containing most of the materials needed to get started as well as the information to construct the entire machine... Maybe these pods could, themselves, be made through carbon capture using the same machines, making them self-replicating without any technical skills needed

But this is all some kind of absurd pipe dream, of course. It's not like self-replicating material-producing carbon capture machines grow on trees

@socalledunitedstates
I think you just invented macro grey goo and I'm here for it
@doppledee Maybe we could make these machines out of biodegradable materials like wood so they just decompose after they stop functioning...
@socalledunitedstates
I mean you do you, I'm here for the unconditional surrender or destruction of mankind tho so 
@socalledunitedstates @doppledee no they should not decompose - that would release the co2 again

@mrweb @doppledee Not if the carbon (and other materials) gets stored in the environment to help construct even more of the same machines later

(The joke is I'm describing plants in all of these posts)