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Entropy? Never heard of it.
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I've heard there's a practical green solution to carbon capture. The units are practically maintenance free and power themselves with solar energy. This allows to deploy them on many small patches of land. The captured carbon is stored in solid organic compounds that may be used as building materials. It may sound to sci-fi to be true, but it's actually just trees.
Ok, but how about we do more than trees? Why are you on the internet when pre-linguistic grunting works just fine?
If you can find a more efficient, less expensive way to physically sequester carbon from the atmosphere than letting forests grow, I'm sure there's a lot of awards you could win
Why does it have to be cheaper? Why not both?
Because if it isn't cheaper than simply growing trees, the money would be better spent simply growing trees
And places trees don't grow?
Try thinking for a second.
Places where trees don't grow are probably not the best places for carbon sequestration if you can't sequester carbon there cheaper or easier than sequestering carbon in trees elsewhere
You could cause a massive death event in the West/developed nations plus China and India which would slow things a lot though I'd argue killing billions isn't the ideal solution.
The point of my comment is that if trees wouldn't exist, they would seem like some futuristic sci-fi solution too good to be true. Just because something is shiny new tech, it isn't automatically better. Sure, just planting trees won't save us if we release all the carbon that is already captured in the form of fossil fuels, but how about we stop releasing all the carbon that is already captured in the form of fossil fuels?