Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky is moving from science fiction to reality

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• Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  There’s no way this will ever be economical at the scale we need to fix what we’ve done.

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Obviously there’s more to it than just saying go, but honestly the economics of it should not matter whatsoever.

    It could cost every penny on the planet and still be worth it, the alternative is the end.

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    • School_Lunch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      If it’s less effective than simply planting more plants, then it would be pointless. It’ll take a massive amount of renewable energy to have any impact. That renewable energy might be better used to help burn less fossil fuels.

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    • Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      This is a nice sentiment that I agree with as a sentiment, but it’s not realistic.

      If it takes the equivalent of 1ton of carbon emissions to capture 1ton of carbon emissions, you are literally going nowhere compared to just replacing fossil fuels.

      So this technology needs to be extremely efficient, otherwise the amount of extra energy generation we need becomes astronomical. So far it does not look anywhere close to being sufficiently efficient.

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  • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    We pretty much have no choice. Stopping to put more CO into the atmosphere wont stop climate change unless we can also remove the excess we’ve already put there.

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  • CeeBee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    It doesn’t need to be

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• Amilo159@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Word of the day of, Green-washing.

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• datelmd5sum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Wouldn’t be more efficient to just grow algae, bamboo, hemp etc. and throw it in a hole somewhere?

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• Smite6645@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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• funkpandemic@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  We already have that, it’s called trees

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• habys@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  sounds like orc mischief to me

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• Hathaway@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  pretty sure this is touched on here, fracking does damage to the place you want to store this CO2. I’m not totally sure this is going to work, at least, as proposed.

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