justintiime
Born on July 03, 2024•4 Karma
Instead of viewing carbon capture as a thermodynamic penalty funded by offset credits, the whitepaper outlines a path to making it an economic inevitability. The core thesis relies on the continued scaling laws of cheap solar: as solar LCOE drops, it eventually becomes cheaper to synthesize hydrocarbons directly from atmospheric CO2 and sunlight than it is to drill mile-deep holes to extract legacy oil and ship it from the other side of the world.
It's a fascinating look at bypassing the energy-scarcity mindset of traditional Direct Air Capture by just brute-forcing the problem with hyperscale and cheap solar.
This is America, the country willing to do the unconscionable when they're not winning fast enough.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
Regardless, Trump and Bibi started this war unilaterally. It's not gone as planned and now they want our support.
The only appeasement I've seen the UK do (repeatedly) in my lifetime is in kowtowing to the US and Israel.
It never ceases to amaze me that demonstrating such a weapon on civilian targets somehow made it past the entire chain of command. One of those things that I just can't wrap my head around no matter how many times I come back to it.
The sites in question were also specifically selected because they hadn't previously faced conventional attack, enabling a more accurate damage assessment.
Which, by the way, illustrates a related point: Hiroshima and Nagasaki had stiff competition. WWII was devastating, to cities and civilians all over the map. More people died in the conventional bombing of Tokyo than the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. I think the atomic bombs represented some 2 weeks worth of casualties in a war that lasted 300.