Yep. Entropy kills us here. With us continuing to emit co2 carbon capture is kinda pointless.

As another commenter states this would ultimately cost 1.95 trillion dollars (for the 50 gigatons of emmisions annually) assuming it's scalable.

And this process creates methanol. We'd have to pump it underground or find another way to store it otherwise we are just spinning our wheels.

And doing that kind of transformation would cost 1.95 trillion dollars a year. That's assuming the method can be scaled and as you mentioned the methanol doesn't get used.

Because we need to not use the end product. That CO2 needs to be put back into the ground to actually solve things.

That would be great if it pans out.

I'm literally arguing against taxing it. And in favor of outright bans.

Tax is far too lax. We need to ban plastic packaging entirely. And eventually completely ban plastic production completely.

Because in the past food was much harder to come by. It was seen as a sign of wealth in western countries too in the past.

Not really. Physically hydrogen (I am assuming H2) is very small allowing it to leak out of what would be normally solid containers way more often than other fuels.

I wasn't aware if they had fixed this serious issue.

Wasn't the main issue with hydrogen is that it's so damn small it's very difficult to contain and use like we do for oil?

Yep. Continuing to rely on a car based system just asks for systematic failure when the cheap materials run out and they are running out.

This is a joke right? Basic physics has carbon capture being effectively impossible as long as we keep emitting carbon from fossil fuels.

It only works once emmisions have stopped completely and even then we need centuries of the current tech to run continuously to fix the climate.

Yep. To pretty much every question. The only question now is when.

Point of no return. Question is what kind of civilization will survive the coming horrible events.

I'm fully expecting the worst famine that humanity has ever encountered in the next decade.

We had issues with farming just this last year in most of the main food growing regions. And it was a tame year compared to what's coming.

Europa moves a lot because of Jupiter's gravity. It's ridiculously strong.

True. But mass discontent has been used by political leaders and generals in the past to stage ultimately popular coups.

It's always pretty dangerous for a regime to be in charge if you are pissing off a large majority of your population and threatening their livelihoods.

If we have these disruptions every year that will pile up. It will cause mass famine when most of the world's bread basket regions can't produce food at the scale they normally do.

It is already causing food issues in poorer nations this year.

And we've seen a ton of new issues pop up that almost always have the "faster than expected" line in them.

We had serious harvest and planting issues across the globe this year......

Yep. And it'll only get worse.

Yep. The mega storms we are seeing more frequently now are a direct result of climate change.

It'll probably end up causing large scale famines in 5 years.

Turns out being bored and not having crazy schedules is kinda a good thing.