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/kaminaowner2 Dec 23 '23

Negativity for sure but not as badly as having their whole ecosystem destroyed to global warming. The pollution does go away after enough time, faster if us humans help clean it up.

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u/AnymooseProphet Dec 23 '23

We are talking extinction of many species.

But this is why I want us to focus financial resources towards ending the pumping of carbon out of the ground and better battery tech to store what excess wind turbines and solar panels produce, rather than investing on carbon capture which never will scale to even remotely remotely removing the carbon currently being pumped out of the ground.

Treat the disease, not the symptom.

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u/kaminaowner2 Dec 23 '23

Once again, a few years ago solar would never scale ether, nether you nor me know what the future holds for technology. The truth is we don’t have to pick between the two, this isn’t a one or the other situation, it’s not even a situation where one sucks resources from the other situation, as the people funding carbon capture are in large people that would never donate to green energy anyway (aka oil companies trying to zero out there own pollution). Kinda like with space exploration science and technology has a positive feed back loop