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esyir on April 13, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: New nuclear reactor designs promise safe, clean el...

Depends. If you run at overcapacity and use that power for carbon fixation, I'm pretty sure you could get net negative carbon output.

We're still burning stored resources that way, but of the sort that have been estimated to last at least the next few centuries.

jjoonathan on April 13, 2020 [–]

Imagine a crazy tycoon on a gigantic barge in the middle of the ocean using gigantic nuclear reactors to direct-carbon-capture CO2 into fuel and then selling it to become a 21st century petro power.

I want to see this movie.

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