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MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical

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173 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 13 Nov 24 15:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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VyseofArcadia ◴[13 Nov 24 16:15 UTC] No.42127346[source]▶
Time scale is also something I want to know about. "Can I remove CO2 from the air and turn it into something valuable in a way that is cost effective?" is one question. Another question is, "Can I remove CO2 from the air and turn it into something valuable faster than a tree?"
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sampo ◴[13 Nov 24 16:25 UTC] No.42127435[source]▶
> "Can I remove CO2 from the air and turn it into something valuable faster than a tree?"

In some climate zones, grasslands do it better than forests.

https://climatechange.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/grasslands-mo...

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1. newsclues ◴[13 Nov 24 18:21 UTC] No.42128536[source]▶
What is smarter, spending years researching and arguing the best way to do this, or using the natural process all over, and adapting the best practice locally, to try to solve climate change?

Some places can plant trees, others grasslands. Or whatever, but it seems like there is a lot of money to create an industrial process that can be commercialized instead of just doing the work naturally...