Pops has moved instances!!!Nov 14, 2019
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
Show threadPops has moved instances!!!Nov 14, 2019

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

Show thread‮Andrew CassidyNov 15, 2019
@socalledunitedstates @rabcyr there’s a multi-million dollar x-prize for “turning atmospheric carbon into useful material” and I’m so tempted to mail them a ficus and a 2x4
Show threadPops has moved instances!!!Nov 15, 2019
@cinebox @rabcyr God, that's so funny. We won't be able to make machines that are remotely as efficient as plants at any point in the knowable future. We're better off genetically engineering plants to produce a wider variety of things we need (and actually using the things they already produce)
Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
@socalledunitedstates @cinebox @rabcyr I'm not so sure. Our machines have already beaten them on light to energy.
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