Thomas Fuchs4d ago

Europe had at least 30 years to prepare for this (if I’m generous), really it’s more like 50+.

Politics, leaders and society failed.

Like in Austria (where I’m from) they’re not closing schools despite it reaching up to 40°C indoors because they don’t have any law for this case.

Torturing children and teachers instead of finally acknowledging that there’s an ongoing deadly emergency.

Pretending that everything is fine instead of finally acting to protect life.

A true boiling frog experiment.

Show threadBeggar Midas4d ago
@thomasfuchs It must not be that desperate if green activists are still deadset against carbon capture startups. Get back with us when your care for the environment finally exceeds your need to extract a pound of flesh from big oil.
Show threadThe Liquid Schwartz4d ago

@Beggarmidas @thomasfuchs

Carbon capture is a kiloton solution to a gigaton problem. Seperating CO2 at PPB levels is thermodynamicly a wasted effort. The amount of energy used is proportional to the degree of seperation your attempting to accomplish. Not a linear relationship, a power law relationship.

Which is why the ...accounts... pumping it as a downstream solution are either deceived, AI scripts, paid liars, or some combination. Get back to us when you learn how exponents work.

All the money that used to be invested into the human slave trade has moved into the petroleum extraction industry. It's now a global extra-judicial cabal. They knew for decades now that humanities transition away from carbon based energy poses an existential threat that must be met with any means necessary. They haven't been idle those decades and they have the money to buy or destroy anyone or anything that stands in their way.

The global slide into fascim. The Trump reich. Ukraine. Brexit. The sundering of the economic liberal world order. All of these are downstream consequences of that defacto monopoly being threatened with non-existence.

Show threadBeggar Midas4d ago
@OvertonDoors @thomasfuchs It still must be part of the solution. There's no avoiding it unless you're willing to wait thousands of years for the situation to self stabilize. The first entries into that space were basically fraudsters looking to cash in. They took EVERYONE for a ride. That was 2007. This is now. There is a whole SLEW of very bright people who are NOT fraudsters looking into a LOT of different solutions now.
Stop hunting for someone to blame.
Start hunting for solutions.
Show threadThe Liquid Schwartz
@Beggarmidas @thomasfuchs the solution is simple. Depose the fossil fuels industry. It's lobbyists. It's boards of directors. It's financers. It's sovereign wealth. Burn it like the joker did that mountain of cash. It's heroine and your proposing a national methidone clinic initiative to "save" us from the cartels.
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Show threadBeggar Midas3d ago
@OvertonDoors @thomasfuchs ...aaaand that line of thinking has sure been delivering returns, hasn't it? Yeah. You don't care about the environment, so cut your bullshit. What you care about is vengeance. WTG demonstrating cleanly why so many people view environmentalists as lacking credibility. Call us back when you can get your priorities straight. Or don't. There's enough politically non-aligned talent onboard work towards solutions now that it'll get addressed whether you're involved or not.
Show threadThe Liquid Schwartz3d ago

@thomasfuchs Someones angry about having their arguments cut off at the legs. Look @Beggarmidas calling me names dosn't change the physics involved, or the impossibility of your projects making any difference. I say -your project- because it's clear this is something you have a personal financial stake in.

Compared to net fossil fuel consumption rates its not even a rounding error in a years CO2 production. Neither are 100 similar project nor 1,000 of them. It's feasible as a syn gas feedstock source, nothing else. So you project your anger, ok, again not my damage. The solution to global warming is to stop burning fossil fuels. Cope with what is, or not.