Yes, just like I looked into the energy costs of carbon capture and conversion into stable carbon forms. (Reverse coal mines etc). We can make oil from the carbon in the atmosphere if we have enough free energy to do so.
Hence why we need to fund scientists and engineers to build a future instead of just waiting to die.
To just look at the math and the physics of a proposed class of solutions makes me an unserious person?
You could have just pointed out the inefficiencies of various implementations and gone that it wouldn’t be viable to maintain an energy storage and distribution leveraging carbon molecules because of (useful technical details) and then we could have had a productive discussion about excess energy production and socially beneficial but wasteful energy consumption as part of grid planning.
While I’m all for funding science , we kind of know what the option space is for energy, and sometimes you can’t innovate your way out of situations, sometimes that magical energy saviour doesn’t appear , and sometimes the solution is just being a more sane society. One example I always give , make mixed use neighborhoods legal , if you made grocery trips walkable in every city it could be billions less fossil fuels consumed per year . If you banned advertising people might consume billions tons less etc… but people will cling to a dead branch in history and end up dead because of it.
Yes, just like I looked into the energy costs of carbon capture and conversion into stable carbon forms. (Reverse coal mines etc). We can make oil from the carbon in the atmosphere if we have enough free energy to do so.
Hence why we need to fund scientists and engineers to build a future instead of just waiting to die.
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To just look at the math and the physics of a proposed class of solutions makes me an unserious person?
You could have just pointed out the inefficiencies of various implementations and gone that it wouldn’t be viable to maintain an energy storage and distribution leveraging carbon molecules because of (useful technical details) and then we could have had a productive discussion about excess energy production and socially beneficial but wasteful energy consumption as part of grid planning.
While I’m all for funding science , we kind of know what the option space is for energy, and sometimes you can’t innovate your way out of situations, sometimes that magical energy saviour doesn’t appear , and sometimes the solution is just being a more sane society. One example I always give , make mixed use neighborhoods legal , if you made grocery trips walkable in every city it could be billions less fossil fuels consumed per year . If you banned advertising people might consume billions tons less etc… but people will cling to a dead branch in history and end up dead because of it.