None of the things you’ve described increase the carbon output.
Right. Because none of it is a fucking coal mine. Which is the only thing that can provide “carbon output”. Except a diamond mine, of course.
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FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 day agoExcept it won’t be.
None of the things you’ve described increase the carbon output.
What chemical reaction gets more carbon out than it puts in? Where do these new carbon atoms come from, fusion?
If anything, those other products include non-gaseous compounds which sequester the carbon from the fuel into a solid resulting in a net-negative amount of carbon being released into the atmosphere.
Those side-products are not good, I’m not saying otherwise, but they are not additional carbon.
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FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sounds like someone needs to lower your temperature settings.
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 22 hours ago
Referring to things as carbon neutral is typically shorthand for net neutral CO₂e (or net-zero) CO₂e.
You’re pedantically right that the machine is not creating or destroying carbon atoms, but the things it does create have massive “carbon dioxide equivalence”. Or, phrased differently: the emissions of this equipment are equivalent to emitting significant amounts of carbon dioxide.
They also reek havoc on people’s lungs.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Eh?
You take excess green power and use it to generate gasoline. You use that gasoline in a combustion engine. Where is the extra carbon coming from which makes this non neutral?