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hatrack

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5. Ten million, actually, assuming anthropogenic carbon is around 40 billion tons a year

Reply to NickB79 (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 8, 2021, 04:51 PM

Sep 2021

Of course, you'd also have to generate power to drive these machines, so might be a good idea to build a few more.

A potentially promising technology, but we don't have a great deal of time left to deal with what we've created.

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