World's first reactor converts ocean CO₂ into biodegradable bioplastic feedstock

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6. I am sorry if you're offended by my simple statement of a fact.

Most of the world's primary energy, roughly 80% consistently over many decades is generated using dangerous fossil fuels.

This said, to your point, it is definitely true that if one were to desire to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, capture from seawater is thermodyamically superior to the much studied direct air capture.

On the energy beat one does here a lot of rhetoric that amounts to perpetual motion machines.

Dr. Willauer's work, which I have followed many years in the primary scientific literature is based on the input of necessary primary energy to create a cyclic system that does not reduce the concentration of CO₂ in the atmosphere, whereas the use to which you have pointed in theory does, coming in under the rubric of CCU, carbon capture and use. In this sense, what you point to is environmentally superior.

The primary energy utilized in Dr. Willauer's work is nuclear. It is designed to generate jet fuel at sea on nuclear powered aircraft carriers. This closed system would not remove carbon dioxide overall, but would result in eliminating additions to the atmosphere when utilized.

Succinyl based polyesters by contrast would effective remove CO₂ sequestering by use. This is obviously a superior approach.

I do appreciate your point but in the ongoing climate disaster, one needs to be clear on the distinctions. The laws of thermodynamics dictate that there is no free lunch.

I did not mean to offend you by commenting on your interesting post.