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muriel_volestrangler

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9. The thing is that you attack any method of decreasing CO2 emissions that doesn't equal your "feasible" end technology

Reply to NNadir (Reply #8)

Fri Jun 26, 2026, 10:35 AM

Friday

You're wishing that no one does anything to use batteries, hydrogen, or any other means of powering transport, until your "on the border between feasible and impossible" capture of atmospheric CO2 has been achieved, even though your own preferred method of energy generation, nuclear fission, needs at least one of these means for a transport solution.

That's why I think you're a hopeless optimist. You want to bet the world on this technology being achieved, and think that ignoring other possibilities would be fine - you must think this carbon capture will turn up any day now.

Myopia? Yes.

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