You and the word irony should get reaquainted...

Play on, playa!

Nothing, the carbon gets mineralized

We need an all of the above approach to climate change. There are some sources that will take a long time to decarbonize, at some level we’ll need carbon capture as one piece of the puzzle.

It’s kind of like The Ocean Cleanup. Yeah there’s way more plastic going in and reducing that should should be first priority, but at some point we have to take some out as well and it’s worth figuring out how to do it at scale

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Carbon capture is a scam!

Maybe, but hopefully by then we'll have transitioned off of greenhouse gases so its not too much of an issue. Right now we just need to be figuring how to keep the planet alive for another few decades before all the super long-term projects come into play

lula is very bom e based

Making concrete requires massive off-gassing of CO2 from limestone, plus a gigantic amount of energy (ie fossil fuels). If they can capture some CO2 in their product, great. However, I doubt this can do much to offset the concrete industry’s gigantic carbon footprint. Sorry if I’m being too negative, but I’ve never seen a carbon capture technology that can balance their chemical equations.

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Are these mines that use child labour?

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I don’t know anything about this particular company, but I did hear about this idea about 10 years ago as a civil engineering student. The idea was meant for concrete companies and involved redirecting the exhaust through this system, not just sucking random air with a vacuum. The concept as it was explained to me was to filter the exhaust through brine. CO2 combines with calcium in the brine to create calcium bicarbonate. I think, that was 10 years ago.

That’s sadly hardly a solution. There’s exactly one solution: don’t use carbon based energy production. „Capturing“ and binding the carbon again will always use significant more energy than oxidizing brought us in the first place. We can’t evade the law of conservation of energy.

Yeah, this is nice but it’s important to remember this is just a drop in the ocean when you see how much CO2 we produce daily. We cannot carbon capture our way out of this. Reduction of emissions is still our #1 priority.

Someday won’t that concrete break and just add back into the climate?

I feel like something like this would have negative side effects for some reason, but we'll see

Kind of like what plants and trees do now…..

What the dilly-o

It’s just a way to justify continually pumping CO2 into the atmosphere then actually solving the problem

Real meat is a horror movie. https://watchdominion.org/

>Because of manufacturers’ restrictive repair rules, some wheelchair users have had to wait weeks for fixes large and small.

Some of our product users have had to wait more than 6 months for the big industry players to get around to things like changing their batteries (which takes all of 10 min to do). The service side of the power wheelchair industry is abysmal. This law forces them to do better or lose their customer base. They're already scrambling to unfuck their service model, and that's really good for the users. Huge kudos to Rep. Titone for helping make this happen.

But what happens when the concrete is broken up to make new concrete?

I think it's less about starting somewhere and more about starting in the right direction.

Collective efforts to reduce CO2 emissions will do way more than trapping CO2 emissions, and at a lower long term cost.

Changing infrastructures to allow people to use less cars, buying food locally, eating less meat and more should be steps that are prioritiesed, but aren't really applied other than being mentioned once and then shrugged off.

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