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I should have specified that I mean the x-files type of UFO’s, containing aliens.

At this rate with this mentality, we are going to have photo “evidence” of bigfoot and UFO’s before 2030.

Not for me. Take in consideration that I don’t do a lot of shopping. Two of the maybe four times times I used a self check-out last year;

1. So I go to the self check-out. One of my items is on clearance. I scan it. It shows full price. turns out I needed to scan a different bar-code for the clearance. However, I can’t remove the already scanned bar-code from the list, so now I need to call assistance.
2. My kids drink a lot of coke zero, so when it goes on sale I usually buy a lot of it. In this case, I took all that’s left in the store. I scan one bottle, do a quick count and adjust the number of bottles accordingly. I place the bottle in my cart and realize I’ve counted one too many. I can’t take it off, and now need to call assistance.

Yearly income is less than 70k for most Europeans. In Denmark the average income is higher, but the rest of Europe is lower, average would probably be less than 40k.

As long as safety and environmental regulations in China are lower than in Europe, it will always be cheaper to produce there.

Eu rules are the same.

Electrolysis is wasteful, but so are internal combustion engines.

Carbon black is produced bij burning a hydrocarbon with a limited amount of air. It’s not a byproduct, but uses organic materials. This can be of renewable sources like vegetable oil, but it is made a lot from the heavy fractions in fossil oil.

And how greenhouse gas intensive is carbon black production?

One catch is that carbon black is mostly made from fossil oil.