cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/28875492
Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere soared by a record amount in 2024 to hit another high, UN data shows, deepening the climate crisis that is already taking lives and livelihoods across the world.
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Largest ever leap in atmospheric CO2 to 424 ppm.
Good work humanity. Ugh we don’t deserve this planet.
True. Stupid humans.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Indeed, I was reading this yesterday and through up a little in my moith. As an Australian, this is a b listed Australian “celebriry” I have never heard off, I can’t even imagine what the really rich are doing with their best effort to desteoy the planet.
The former medic requested the huge spousal support figure in order to maintain the “luxurious and upper-class lifestyle” he had enjoyed with Sia, which included over $US400,000 in monthly expenses for private jets, vacations, high-end dining and several full-time members of staff.
Growing algae for carbon capture as a exetential crisis hobby. 1lb dry solid carbon this year, equivalent to 4lbs atmospheric CO2, I have a process down now and equipment for next spring, as well as a substantial indoor grow/storage over winter.
Doing something is better than nothing.
What do you do with the dried carbon? As I understand, you will need some way to store it long-term if you want to take it out of the atmosphere. Otherwise it might (at some point, given enough moisture, but this can already happen under high air humidity) be broken down by microorganisms to CO2 (which incidentally will end up in the armosphere again).
Anyway, I wanted to mention that I think your hobby is very cool. Algae are amazing, and growing them for carbon capture sounds like a fun project.
Currently… Paper bag to make it easy to weigh. Trying to sell as fish food to fund the project. I would like to transition to converting it to algenic acid for sale. A bit of funding and I could also probably purchase a better strain of algae to farm than the yellow-green I collected from a pond.
My friend is a marine biologist who did his thesis on a research project to try to develop biodiesel from algae.
In short, small scale efforts in a laboratory were very successful, but there were significant roadblocks to scaling it up. One of the issues in open environments was that once there was a large amount of algae it would always become contaminated by one cell organisms that would take the algae as their food supply. Algae in the wild have a wide array of symbiotic and pathenogenic relationships within the living world.
It is wild interacting with people who have functionally checked out of caring about climate change because the rise of rightwing fascism has made publicly opting out of having empathy so much more acceptable.
We are hitting the pedal to the medal and 10 years ago I wouldn’t have been able to convince myself we would be so much less prepared culturally and societally to act to mitigate Climate Change (at least here in US), I am cynical as fuck but that would have been even too cynical for me to believe then.
I mean the technology is amazing, alternative energy has blown away my expectations in the evolution and growth it has had but here in the US centrists and rightwingers have been acting like Climate Change was a tv show everyone used to tune into and now the fad has passed… it makes me nauseous.
