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The Skeptics Guide #853 - Nov 13 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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How Valuable Is This Orchid?

Climatologists have developed a way to capture carbon dioxide from an orca plant. The process is safe and stable, but it would take huge amounts of heat to release the CO2 back into the atmosphere. This technology could be scaled up so that more orcas can be captured per year. But there are big problems with scaling this type of project: how much money do we really need? And what kind of impact on our climate will all these people make?

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