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pyrale on Sept 8, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Climeworks lays the foundation to scale up carbon ...

> On the other hand [...]

This tells more about the ridiculous progression of exponential functions than about the efficiency of this process.

twoslide on Sept 8, 2020 [–]

Agreed that doubling every year is wildly optimistic, other technological growth is much slower, e.g. mobile phones were about 36% annually between 1990 and 2018: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.CEL.SETS.P2

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