there’s no such rule

Syngas, a mixture of CO and H2

It’s university press department stuff. That’s always shitty pop-science communication.

Then again, it works, as people post that to fora, instead of the actual research. And popularity, not quality, of work brings grants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetogen is a more promising technology in my opinion. It also does not require high pressures or temperatures, has been proven to scale to tons of co2, and uses much less energy than this paper.

This paper has the advantage of not needing a high concentration of co2 in the air. But on the other hand, such sources are readily available as a by-product of industry.

Depends on your personal connections.

Aand, it’s gone.

the EU would contribute €50 billion with the rest pledged by “providers, investors and industry.”

make our own production more competitive and enable better salaries overall.

That’s the topic of this post: due to it’s central steering EU became technologically (and in a few decades economically) irrelevant. It doesn’t know how to make 21st century things. Tarrifs don’t help with that problem, au contraire. Nor does a national social security system. The latter does make sure that everyone’s quality of life degrades about equally fast.

That I know, I live in Belgium.

I wonder what successful capitalisation of that would look like?

That’s something EU countries are better at than the US and on which it should capitalise

What does that look like?

That, I think, is a symptom not a cause.

The cause is societal: the EU thinks that innovation should come top down. By giving established corporations subsidies, and a large administration that steers everyone every step of the way. To make sure nobody does anything out of the ordinary.

That works if you want to improve car crash safety by 5%. But, ofcourse, that doesn’t work for true, novel ideas. Concensus being antagonistic to novelty.

And it’s not solely a “bad politicians” problem. A majority of Europeans are simply afraid of change, want their 9-to-5 job to look exactly the same for their whole life. The elected reflect their electorate.

Too bad the world changes regardless of you participating.

Ah yes, politics as a driving force for technological innovation. This time it’ll work. 😒

I use syncthing to sync folders between phone, tablet, desktop and my home server (a NUC).

Then rsync on a schedule from the server to a second off-site server (also a NUC) as backup, connected through zerotier.

I know of truenas, which is a more NAS like solution, but haven’t personally used that.