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Nice, this was one of the bigger things I have on my "I hope someone knows how to solve this" pile.

What else is in that pile?

Creating clean energy with fusion, desalinating salt water for near limitless clean water, reducing plastic use, curing cancer and on and on and on

Black holes, portals, FTL, electoral reform…

I do have blog posts about all of those things, but that's more my "shower thoughts" pile:

• https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2022/05/14-17.06.59.html

• https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2021/07/31-13.37.34.html

• https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2017/04/20-14.32.32.html

• https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2024/04/24-10.42.51.html

I like the implication that FTL is closer on the horizon than electoral reforms

you saw what I did there

> desalinating salt water for near limitless clean water

Don't forget the free salt!

Agricultural emissions, mostly methane but also land-use.

Metalysis (which exists, I want to see more roll-outs in more materials, particularly iron and steel).

At least one of "cheaper storage" or "the political solution to create a global power grid that I already know is both possible and affordable on paper" (c. 230 bn USD of aluminium).

Cheaper solutions to improve the insulation and cooling in older buildings.

Industrial scale Sabatier process.

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