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Entropy? Never heard of it. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The wider issue is you have to generate that energy, and you have to be able to capture more carbon than that generation released.

As I understand it doesn't at all. This is why it's seen as analagous to a perpetual motion machine, it's an endless chain of power plants capturing each others carbon to no end.

You could use solar of course, but then why generate anything with fossil fuels just to capture the carbon with solar? Just use solar.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

Because we still need to bring CO2 levels down even if we stop burning fossil fuel.

And then we'll probably need to burn fossil fuel to keep them at the right level, since we are in a capitalistic society and we're never going to be able to shutdown the CO2 collectors if they are ever built.