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Old 04-24-2021, 09:14 PM   #5515
malloyd
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Default Re: New Reality Seeds

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Originally Posted by chaotic-nipple View Post
In my headcanon, all the coal-, oil-, and natural gas-fired powerplants on Homeline use specially designed conveyers to vent their exhaust into uninhabited parallels. Combined with all newly built vehicles being electric, CO2 emissions are essentially zero.
The problem there is conveyers aren't gates, they're vehicles. If you've already captured all the CO2 into a dense enough form to be economically transported, it seems to me like you've done half the work of doing something more useful with it than just dumping it. Pressurizing your oil wells on those same uninhabited parallels you got the oil from if nothing else. More economically viable carbon capture technologies are an interesting idea for a potentially valuable target to be stolen from other advanced timelines.
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