Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cryptoengineer Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:03:26 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <20240913a@crcomp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 19:03:27 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f1386b8598bea1ad61c4df96933a863d"; logging-data="1659763"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18s8xO/fmj/4AsS+GoK3C1ZD071bICZayc=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZZ9j8o11KIt7HJHL1GZICrgfMo8= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3076 On 10/21/2024 9:13 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > On 10/21/24 13:32, quadibloc wrote: >> On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 22:42:46 +0000, Scott Dorsey wrote: >> >>> The problem is that if you want to turn CO2 into solid carbon that can >>> be readily stored, it takes as much energy as you got from burning the >>> carbon into CO2 in the first place.  Assuming 100% efficiency, which you >>> don't even come close to. >> >> That's true. But cars burn gasoline because it's a very efficient >> portable >> source of energy. Carbon capture plants don't have to be portable. So >> they can use nuclear power from the grid. Only if the carbon capture >> plants had to run on fossil fuels would this make things worse >> instead of better. >> >> John Savard > > Why not power from less dangerous sources, Such as Solar Power or Wind > or Tidal power plants. Of course you may be a nuclear power promoter > careless of the storage of fuel and the radioactive contamination that > may lead from such devices. Or maybe because you have not experience > adverse effects from such you may have forgotten the possibility. > >     Solar power with suitable batteries in isolated areas > could handle the conversion to another form of carbon releasing > oxygen hopefully in the process. > >     Gasoline was very useful due to it high energy content > but batteries are approaching the same energy density. Batteries are not a power source - they are a power store. When you burn hydrocarbons, you are exploiting energy trapped millions of years ago, and have that available to use. A battery can only supply the energy you put into it recently. I get annoyed when I see people advertising battery systems as 'generators'. pt