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Technology for a Solar-Punk future.

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[–] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

there's concepts like biorefinery where we take plastic and agricultural waste and put it into a heavily modified oil refinery and out comes biochar and some chemical feedstocks (e.g. ethylene) for making new virgin-grade plastic. Depending on the design it can be more carbon efficient than carbon capture, but in general these industries use a gigantic amount of energy while producing less plastic and much less gasoline/diesel than a normal oil refinery.