They could quit.

Or maybe they can’t afford to quit, which is kinda why we need acts of protest

Yep… All those Europeans getting high and mighty about how we need to “fix our county” need to realize they’re right behind us on the pipeline

This is a global problem

Gatekeep at the grocery store. It’s easier to resist eating a full tub of Oreos by deciding not to buy them in the first place

It’s easier to moderate what platforms you use than it is to resist their affect on you. Restrict where and how you are exposed to short form video and what kinds of social media you use

Also, take magnesium glycinate, but not on an empty stomach. Basically everyone with ADHD has a magnesium deficiency that makes the symptoms way worse

They’re becoming closer and closer to it though. Scary court decisions are being made, it won’t be long before someone tests it as a legal argument

At this point, you just seem obscenely delusional to me. What you’re saying is so far beyond reason I don’t even know where to start.

You are not informed enough to have an opinion on the topic. I’m sorry, you’re just spewing nonsense, you need to keep your opinions to yourself

You keep jumping back and forth between biofuel and biomass. You can bury solid biofuel, you can pump liquid biofuel, both are stable if you put them somewhere without much oxygen

Biomass is something different… Do it right and you can just use it as fertilizer. Just grow a bunch of algae and spray it over dry land… It’s that easy. It’ll feed the soil, which locks up a lot of carbon back into the food chain. Stack wood in a desert, who cares. There’s so many better ways to do this

And CO2 is a fucking gas. Yes, it’s liquid under pressure or at low enough temp… But it does not stay that way! We live in Earth, and most cavities aren’t able to stay pressurized without leaking

Do you work for them or something? Holy shit

Of course volumetric density is what matters. That and long term stability

You know what is really good at storing carbon underground forever? Fossil fuels. And if they can pull it out of the ground, they should have no problem putting it back in… It’s a lot simpler

Ridicule definitely helps against the far right, they don’t have a real ideology. Make their leader look weak and they’ll quiet down

Chains of hydrogen and carbon.

Yes, hydrogen, the smaller possible molecule, and carbon, which is smaller and lighter then oxygen

Hydrocsrbon chains are the most efficient way to store carbon, aside from something like graphite.

Who cares what it becomes when you burn it? CO2 is obviously not the optimal carbon sink, even before you start considering things like long term stability

I get what you’re saying, it sounds very reasonable conceptually. But the problem is that this is a chain so riddled with weak links it’s infeasible

You’re right about biofuel… Except that biofuel is already refined biomass. The water is already removed, usually to become as close to pure hydrocarbons as possible. That’s a far more efficient CO2 sink than pure CO2, because the oxygen component is in the atmosphere

It’s insane to burn biofuels to lower atmospheric CO2.

And as far as the process being non-destructive… This technology was developed to use pressured CO2 to break smaller pockets in the rock, it’s like using a pressure chamber to deflate foam. Except the rocks aren’t plastic until your get a whole lot deeper, and the amount of pressure means the whole well is being pressurized beyond a level it was ever at naturally

Can a big cavity in the Earth store gasses? Sure. Can an oil well? Maybe… But so far, the answer is it leaks

As for your last point… If you instead ask if we should cram biofuels in the ground? That’s a way better idea, there’s something to it. It’s not a solution, it doesn’t scale to the levels where we can keep using fossil fuels everywhere, but it would sequester C02 very effectively. Kind of like it was before we dug it up and burned it

The biofuel thing is just further nonsense.

If you’re pulling CO2 out of the air, why in the world would you turn around and burn it???

That makes zero sense. For one, biofuels require processing, which means they might even be carbon positive before you burn it, and again, the scale needed to produce it in meaningful quantities is totally impractical.

And again, you can’t just pump CO2 in the well and put an acme sized plug on it. The structure of the rock is destroyed by the process, it’ll just leak out. We’d need an entirely new method to store it, which was never the plan here

This whole scheme is a fever dream designed to continue burning fossil fuels while siphoning away money from actual green movements

Ok… Come on now, I know you’ve been propagandized, and propaganda works, but let’s think this through

If you capture CO2 out of smokestacks, what have you done? You’ve slightly reduced emissions by going after the lowest hanging fruit possible

Are we going to do that to every power plant? Is every containment effort going to work? Does that actually fix the problem?

You don’t understand… We already know it doesn’t work. They’ve been doing this for decades, they’ve recently started green washing this fracking technique

And in case you didn’t know, there’s dozens of oil wells leaking right now. Some is oil in the ocean, some natural gas, some of it is burning underground… And there’s just no known way to stop it. You can’t just seal them back up when you’re done, the structure of the rock is damaged

And all of the aside, this doesn’t math even if it worked. It takes too much energy to pull CO2 out of the air, and to even make a dent we’d have to put up CO2 condensers on a percentage of earths surface… It’s a dead end tech.

A distraction from the truth… We just have to reduce emissions. It’s that simple, we have to do it before the systems that keep Earth stable flip and accelerate warming

Yeah, I’m sure it’ll work this time. It definitely won’t hold just long enough for attention to go elsewhere…

Oil companies are really great at keeping things in oil wells, especially at sea. Just a fantastic track record

Because companies don’t do R&D anymore, they fund startups and aquire them when they’re ripe

Being able to replace workers with AI is a holy Grail for capitalism, and so a ton of companies have poured their saved up “R&D funds” in order to get in early

I think they’re too big to bail out at this point

Also, no one wants US bonds right now, so we couldn’t borrow our way out of it even if we wanted to. We’d just have to print like a trillion or more dollars all at once

Have you heard of Slate? They sound a lot like what you’re looking for

Lots of countries say that, but that’s incredibly impractical in practice

And the humans move around them, guiding parts into place with mechanical assistance and doing the finer details, because it’s really fucking hard to fully automate the process

Right… Conquer the stars…hides new global warming plan to do nothing about it behind back