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Entropy? Never heard of it. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] SkunkWorkz 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Synthetic fuels for air planes and rockets

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That would put it right back into the atmosphere, though it would reduce the amount of fossil fuels used

Perhaps do this once levels are back to pre industrial and the excess is in oil wells

Perhaps we should convert all the excess to fuel and pump it into oil wells so any successor civilisations can fuck up their climate like we have

[–] SkunkWorkz 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Pumping it back into wells as oil is maybe a good idea. If civilization completely collapses back to the Stone Age humanity might never rebuild and advance into an industrial era if there are no more easily accessible fossil fuels. The rapid advancements of humanity of the last two centuries is because of fossil fuels. Of course there is a chance future humans after the apocalypse can advance without fossil fuels. But we don’t know for sure. To give them a fighting chance we have to replenish whatever we took out of the ground. Otherwise they might never advance past a medieval era.

Another idea is to bury tree logs into old mines where it can’t rot so it will fossilize into coal over centuries.