luminarium

luminarium t1_j60bv3g wrote

"not polluting in the first place" is easy to say, hard to do. You can't make solar panels and batteries without mining a lot of rare earths using heavy-duty, gasoline/diesel-guzzling vehicles. That's why advances like this are so great. Now stop being a debbie downer or get banned per rule #1.

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luminarium t1_j3oe92e wrote

This is kind of why I wasn't ever concerned about there being too much plastic trash building up in the world. In light of technologies such as this (and future ones), it kind of makes plastic recycling, and plastic use reduction... kinda stupid.

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