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> it probably means that future breakthroughs will occur in private labs, protected by patents and trade secret laws.

This does well to incentivize the inventors; perhaps they could be purchased rather than nationalizing the successful innovation models.

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I would almost suggest that gov't should be funding this, but it is primarily private corps doing the polluting. Maybe have gov't fund it, then force polluters to pay gov't back from actual carbon tax?

Have government fund it, then limit or tax net emissions and now there is tech on the market to capture carbon to reduce your net emissions.

Ah.. independant invention without significant capital/money based support is very rare in the modern day world. So I'm sure it will support only inventors at an organizational level and at that level, there are lots of skewed incentives for the CXO level peeps to do more marketing that inventing and ensuring most value is captured for the organization than passed on.

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