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		gus_massa on Oct 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ocean acidification due to carbon emissions is at ... > Incidentally, C2 is a strong acid It’s almost impossible to produce a lot of C2 because it reacts with itself and produce some Carbon compound, like an amorphous version of graphite, similar to soot. In this version it can be compressed and buried. (The main problem with this idea is that the decomposition needs a lot of energy.)

protomyth on Oct 4, 2013 [–]

I would hope the long promised use of carbon in chips and synthetic diamonds would find a use for the carbon instead of burying it.

I was just wondering since it seems like we are not going to be able to reduce usage and undoing it seems like the only hope.

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