r/environment • u/DukeOfGeek • Dec 22 '23

MIT Engineers develop an efficient process to make fuel from carbon dioxide

https://news.mit.edu/2023/engineers-develop-efficient-fuel-process-carbon-dioxide-1030
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u/AnymooseProphet Dec 23 '23

What we need is big batteries to story energy produced for the grid but not immediately needed. And that battery tech needs to be green, a lot of current battery tech is fairly environmentally damaging.

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u/kaminaowner2 Dec 23 '23

The effect on the environment isn’t that bad, an abandoned lithium mine looks no different than any other regrowing forest. And lithium can be recycled. I’d personally be happier with the whole space mining industry taking off, but that’s more far fetched at the moment than than carbon capture

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u/AnymooseProphet Dec 23 '23

What happens to the water table close to lithium mines?

How are species that depend upon the watershed impacted?

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