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My understanding was that they were expensive and without a price on carbon, no one has an incentive to do it. You don't actually even need to get it out of th
by Eridrus 10y ago
My understanding was that they were expensive and without a price on carbon, no one has an incentive to do it.
You don't actually even need to get it out of the atmosphere, you can retrofit power plants with carbon capture tech that is more efficient, but still, there is no incentive.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoThe best incentive is to come up with something of value that can be done with that carbon. Then it becomes "money I could grab" instead of "pollution I should not be releasing".
- Eridrus 10y agoI mean, the main thing we've figured out to do with carbon is set it on fire to create electricity, which is sort of what got us into this mess ;) But even if there was a better use for carbon, it would still have to be cost competitive with digging it out of the ground, which it's not.