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Renewable energy being the cheapest energy really, really helps

Carbon capture being expensive is unfortunate. It would be nice if we could cheaply use fossil fuels and keep the carbon out of the biosphere, but we can't, so we should just use renewable energy, and big countries can also use nuclear until we run out of fissile material

But you need to cut those trees down and place them somewhere they won't rot

Sink them to the bottom of the deep ocean, but trees famously float

Leave them in deserts where the dryness will suppress rot, but damage the desert habitat

Dump them in peat bogs, but there aren't enough

Perhaps it would be best to cook them to charcoal, it releases some carbon into the atmosphere, but it would leave some solid, inedible to anything carbon that can be dumped in any old mine, but that's expensive

Also if you dump the whole trees in whatever way, you also dump whatever nutrients are in it

Our previous progressive government lost its next election over a price on carbon

It's too easy for right wing politics to cast it as "your electricity prices will go up; fuel will get more expensive; you won't be able to afford to use your gas heater in winter"

It's a difficult policy to get, you need a party brave enough to implement it in their first weeks in power so people see it doesn't hurt by the next election

Low carb diets work perfectly for humans to lose excess fat (with plenty of meat if you don't want to lose muscle)

Cats are obligate carnivores, they get fat on cat foods with cereals in them. A cat will get healthy if fed just meat and fish, there are cat foods that are just that, but tinned tuna might be cheaper than the same thing packaged as cat food

(I'm allergic to too many plants – the big one being grasses, including all the food grains, as well as bamboo clothing – so my low carb diet is/was no carb just meat)

Fun film, was it Twister or the other one. This one was better than the other film

Edit: Ah the other was Into the storm. Not nearly as good. Didn't even have cows. Four stars.

I have to keep a VGA connected monitor for my old machines - the oldest drives it at CGA. That monitor is an old LCD

That would put it right back into the atmosphere, though it would reduce the amount of fossil fuels used

Perhaps do this once levels are back to pre industrial and the excess is in oil wells

Perhaps we should convert all the excess to fuel and pump it into oil wells so any successor civilisations can fuck up their climate like we have

You would presumably capture the carbon using excess solar and wind power, which is also the cheapest power there is, sometimes going negative

Is your capture number including the cost of liquifying the CO2 for storage?

We have such technology already, it's just too expensive

Until the tree dies and rots or burns

Specifically replanting all the forests we cut down during the age of sail is just capturing the carbon that was released when those sailing ships rotted

If we wanted to keep the carbon captured which we captured with plants, we would have to store those plants where they are safe from rot or burn them in a (not yet invented) carbon capturing furnace

Specifically it's not trying to be an over unity machine. Energy is spent pushing air through the filter medium; energy is spent moving the filter to the CO2 extractor; energy is spent heating the filter (or whatever the extraction system is); energy is spent compressing or freezing CO2 for storage

BG3 follows tabletop RPG style. You can fight your way through or sneak your way through or talk your way through

Fail to talk well or sneak well means you get to try the fight method

At very least if sneaking fails you ought to be able to run and hide and sneak again with it a little harder 'cause they're looking for you