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You are right and I don't understand why you're downvoted. CCS is literally unburning coal and oil. Gathering ashes (CO2) and putting them back in the ground.
by GeoAtreides 6y ago
You are right and I don't understand why you're downvoted.
CCS is literally unburning coal and oil. Gathering ashes (CO2) and putting them back in the ground. Instead of energy producing goods and services, it just funnels air into the ground. The energy needed for this is at least the same energy that was released in the last 200 years.
It's also needed to stave off catastrophe and civilisation collapse, but let's not kid ourselves: it doesn't produce anything, except in indirect ways. Capitalism is not equipped to deal with this scenario.
- fsloth 6y agoModern market-economy states have huge businesses just supporting this and that government mandate without actually producing anything - tax lawyers for example.
- rightbyte 6y agoEvery plant is a "carbon remover". "Funnels air into the ground" can describe a potatoe plant. Surely there can be economy in that.
- GeoAtreides 6y agoNo, every plant is carbon storage. The only way it becomes a 'remover' if it's buried back in the ground.