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NNadir

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1. The difference of course, is that data centers are real and "carbon capture and storage" isn't. Like hydrogen...

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Sun Jul 12, 2026, 11:01 AM

21 hrs ago

..."carbon capture and storage" - the two are sometimes coupled in nonsensical rhetoric - is just fossil fuel greenwashing.

On the other hand, carbon capture and utilization seems more serious, but the laws of thermodynamics require that such a scheme will require vast clean energy, and right now, clean sustainable energy accounts for less than 40 Exajoules out of around 650.

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The difference of course, is that data centers are real and "carbon capture and storage" isn't. Like hydrogen... NNadir 21 hrs ago #1