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lambda_x_lambda_y_y t1_j3r6vta wrote

Reply to comment by iqisoverrated in Solar-powered system converts plastic and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels. Researchers have developed a system, which can convert two waste streams into two chemical products at the same time – the first time this has been achieved in a solar-powered reactor. by Wagamaga

Well we still need CCUS for energy sector decarbonisation anyway, but it can be expected to solve by itself the anthropogenic GHG emission problem in any way.

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lambda_x_lambda_y_y t1_j3qf4bd wrote

Reply to comment by projectkennedymonkey in Earth’s ozone layer on course to be healed within decades, UN report finds | Most of atmospheric layer that protects planet from ultraviolet radiation likely to be fully recovered for most of world by 2040. by SetMau92

Well, it would have last for a century or so seeking only the currently economically profitable mineral uranium resources at market value (which aren't the totality of the mineral uranium resources).

Theoretically, seawater uranium can last millennia (but the extraction makes it cost more than the uranium market value, although that bottleneck is decreasing fast lately).

However, the fast nuclear reactor technology solves the limitations issue of the economically profitable uranium as well as the highly radioactive wast problem (which in reality is more of a social conundrum than a problem).

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lambda_x_lambda_y_y t1_j3pbhmb wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Earth’s ozone layer on course to be healed within decades, UN report finds | Most of atmospheric layer that protects planet from ultraviolet radiation likely to be fully recovered for most of world by 2040. by SetMau92

Well actually we know what that single simple step is: the single sector responsible for the majority (~60%) of anthropogenic GHG emissions (measured in CO2eq over 100 years) is energy production (i.e. electricity and thermal energy production).

Fossil fuels were (and still are) too convenient and pervasive to take action, though. But theoretically we had the technology to decarbonise electricity and thermal energy production even 50 years ago (with nuclear energy).

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