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Well atleast Gates invested in Carbon Engineering which does exactly that. At the moment they estimate it to cost between $94 and $232$ to pull 1T CO² out of t
by Roritharr 8y ago
Well atleast Gates invested in Carbon Engineering which does exactly that.
At the moment they estimate it to cost between $94 and $232$ to pull 1T CO² out of the air. [1]
So atleast someone is playing that game already, same with Ocean Cleanup Drones etc. etc. Lot's of people try to use market forces to save the planet, and Big Tech Co's are investing in that space, but it's not something where one can expect results in less than a decade.
[1] https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/06/07/extracting-carbon-dioxide-from-the-air-is-possible-but-at-what-cost https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/06/07/...
- pfdietz 8y agoThe Carbon Engineering story is interesting, because it politely but firmly shows an earlier claim from an APS study about the economics of direct air capture was just bad. The APS study made some bad engineering choices and other mistakes and wrongly concluded DAC would have to cost $600/ton of captured CO2. http://carbonengineering.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CE_APS_DAC_Comments.pdf http://carbonengineering.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CE_A...
- A2017U1 8y agoThe carbon offset for a ton of emissions was a few dollars on my last flight. How is $94 feasible? Even a tenth of that seems too high