This is probably the simplest and cheapest setup.

I read more about azolla and direct sun, so really it would need to be shaded, and that’s fine, as long as we shade it with solar panels.

Awesome, yea I think that’s why this is actually feasible. You’re taking an idea that is already proven to work, and then you simply just add value by making the land more productive with very little extra investment.

Yes you’re effectively sucking out nitrogen and carbon directly from the atmosphere and turning it into a solid. Furthermore, if you squeeze out all the water you get extremely dense cakes. You can use the energy generated from the solar panels to mechanically squeeze the azolla, use the squeezed out water back into the system.

Happy cake day, and yes, both. Carbon sequestration and animal feed.

Great question. Several uses. especially if squeeze and dried, can be used as nitrogen fertilizer. Given the fact that azolla fixes nitrogen from the atmosphere.

Biochar: Organic carbon permanently locked into a solid form that remains in the soil for over 1,000 years, generating high-value Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) credits.

High-Protein Animal Feed: A cheap, highly nutritious feed supplement rich in protein and amino acids to replace land-intensive soy and alfalfa for cattle, poultry, and fish.

Organic Biofertilizer: Nitrogen-rich pellets made directly from the nitrogen-fixing fern, allowing farmers to completely bypass expensive, fossil-fuel-derived synthetic fertilizers.

Here’s a concept image of what I have in mind for a climate change solution. Using bifacial solar cells in combination with azolla ponds to sequester carbon dioxide and produce excess electricity.

Russia is about to experience an economic collapse, pretty sure.

End all subsidies for coal NOW.

I’m confused, do the Chinese not count as a part of humanity? The entire world is losing to China when it comes to nuclear power increases.

Like you keep saying “we”. China is currently doing what you mention “in a perfect world”. Why can’t we do the same? Why is it that Illinois stopped at around exactly 50%? They ACTIVELY constructing these.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China

I wish the Albanian people the best in destroying Kushner’s attempts to threaten the natural reserve and flamingos. 🦩

In reality it makes sense to keep building nuclear, the resources required to build nuclear are mostly different than building solar and wind, so you can definitely do both to increase carbon free energy rapidly. I agree we need to rapidly scale solar and wind, but we also need to be advancing nuclear power technology.

Also solar and wind need batteries because of their variable generation, again which are different materials/knowledge than nuclear mostly.

This is actually how the bubble begins to pop, we’re seeing it happen now.

I’ve seen this mentality too many times. The fact is China is actively building many nuclear power plants. The idea that it’s “too late” is ridiculous. There is growing demand for nuclear power. You can have solar, wind, AND nuclear.

There is still massive energy demand, “missed the boat” is kind of nonsensical.

Reprocessing spent fuel is also a massive opportunity. But yea I am 100% in agreement with you.

It’s always about labor.

Yea honestly, orbital data centers are the dumbest shit I’ve heard during this bubble, and a huge indication of peak bubble hype.

Technology really doesn’t work like that, putting more money into something doesn’t make something available sooner. The hope of fusion should not delay solutions now. Solar is good and growing rapidly.