The incoming Trump administration will have a say in whether federally backed direct air capture projects in Louisiana move forward
Worst then that, it is an excuse to continue or increase emissions and distract people from real solutions. We need to reduce emissions first. It might be valuable someday once the low hanging fruit has been dealt with.
Its a waste of valuable resources that could be used on known, more efficient ways of reducing emissions. Carbon capture isn’t here to save us, it is here to save oil and gas
It’s not a single bullet solution. There is no single bullet solution.
It is one bullet, in a hail of bullets fired at the problem. They’ll all be needed.Use coal to pull carbon from the air. Makes total sense! /s
But, it’s “clean coal!!!” /s
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If its viable enough and could be stop/started quickly enough I could see it as a dump for negative cost electricity.
tl;dr waste of money
It’s a big fuckin’ mystery.
I would say its a yes and. Yes it costs a lot of money and it’s not as efficient as trees long term. But Trees + these machines + no longer burning and releasing CO2 at the current rate + land rewilding = a chance at survival.
