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2dozen22s t1_j60yllo wrote
Reply to comment by hearnia_2k in Researchers unveil the least costly carbon capture system to date - down to $39 per metric ton. by heavy-metal-goth-gal
Drying the ground bamboo in a high temp greenhouse would reduce the weight substantially. You'd basically be shipping fuel around. Bamboo is already 50% carbon.
Then mixing can be done on-site and gathered locally to reduce carried weight further.
Grinding can be solar powered, green house is sunlight, cutting can be electric powertools, etc.
Emission wise its probably very sound, but maintaining and replanting bamboo which can grow like, 1m a day, might be the hard part in terms of scaling things up.
(Edit: a 100m2 area with 25% area utilization should yield 8750kg of bamboo a day. Or 4.375 tons of carbon.
Idk how accurate those numbers are, and that's a best guess using online resources)
2dozen22s t1_j5zamh4 wrote
Reply to comment by publicdefecation in Researchers unveil the least costly carbon capture system to date - down to $39 per metric ton. by heavy-metal-goth-gal
Bamboo grows ridiculously fast and might be better suited tbh Could grow that, dry it, mix it with sand, and fill in old open pit mines.
2dozen22s t1_j68aknm wrote
Reply to If you could instantaneously place a space telescope at any desired distance (LYs), from any planet/galaxy etc., where would it be and what would you be documenting? And for what purpose? by kennyarsen
About the width of our galaxy, directly above our galaxy. A 2nd reference point would be invaluable, and it would let us image our own Galaxy better.