SkyDiamonds: BUSTED!

Phil, we need more people like you to fight against ignorance and false claims. Thanks for the effort !

Mathias Uhlig

As always, excellent exposure of pseudoscience. Do people really believe ?? Thanks for the video.

VitAnyaNaked

So isn't that just like bitcoin - creating value from thin air and lots of energy?

Armin von Werner

That's what it seems like: diamonds from air, not at all anything like beads from air..... oh wait. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u-jsofRe7LY&t=310s So that's where it came from. I'm guessing. 🧐

Or the fact that artificial diamonds aren't worth anything. Carbon should be priced at it's replacement cost, so oil and diamonds should be valuable, and wood and protein should be cheap. I don't even like most humans, but here we are.

I must admit, I thought that diamond was a non-oxidisable form of carbon. If graphite is equally stable chemically that would be better from the sequestering perspective. Previous tech I’ve seen to make money from sequestered carbon has been to synthesise fuels from it or sell it in liquid form to drinks manufacturers, either of which return it to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide after its second use. It seems that there’s no saleable value in permanent carbon sequestration without it offsetting carbon taxes which we don’t have yet anyway for instance. I’m convinced we need to do it, but the question remains how do we pay for it? It was the calculations of saved CO2 from the diamond mining industry that made this “sky mining” attractive and, sadly, not the volume of carbon sequestered.

Actually, Dale isn’t trying to sell this as a solution to CO2 sequestration in itself. Yes it does use lots of energy. His solution is intended to replace the currently massively CO2 intense Diamond mining industry with carbon negative process to produce the same number of diamonds by “Mining the sky” as he likes to call it. He admits, when interviewed, that the amount of carbon tied up in each carat of diamond is not very much but as long as the energy used is produced renewably it can replace the massive CO2 emitters currently producing the worlds supply of diamonds. He is right about that carbon being permanently removed from the biosphere, it is just a bit of a disappointment to find out how little CO2 is needed. I wish him well with it. It is a worthwhile endeavour, even if it will be misrepresented by the sensationalist media.

Head ---> Wall, Repeat.

Jason Remington