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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 6 months ago

Reality check on technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air

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Reality check on technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air

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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 6 months ago
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An MIT Energy Initiative study finds many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of “direct air capture” and therefore may not bring about promised reductions.
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    You can do that, but not at anywhere near the scale of current emissions from fossil fuel burning.

    Actually making any kind of removal meaningful means scaling down fossil fuel use to near zero compared with current extraction and burning.

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      Agreed, fossil energy sources add more climate gases to the eco balance. I suppose the original idea of “carbon capture” was to capture the excess and store it back under ground.

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        Or the original idea was to run a PR exercise for the fossil fuels industry, creating social permission to keep on extracting and burning.

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