How many Gt of carbon are we capturing annually? According to Wikipedia, less than 50Mt. We need to scale up hundreds of times to make a sizable dent in global

How many Gt of carbon are we capturing annually? According to Wikipedia, less than 50Mt. We need to scale up hundreds of times to make a sizable dent in global emissions. Hard to scale up a technology that is not working that well in practice. > The joint venture project between NRG Energy Inc and Japan’s JX Nippon had received a $190 million grant from the U.S. government. Before being mothballed, it was the only U.S. project capturing carbon from a coal-fired power plant. > Since Petra Nova started up in 2017, it suffered outages on 367 days, according to a technical report it sent to the DOE in March. Issues with the carbon-capture facility accounted for more than a quarter of the outage days, followed by problems with the plant’s dedicated natural gas power unit, according to the report. > The facility also missed its carbon capture targets by about 17%: It captured 3.8 million short tons of carbon dioxide during its first three years, shy of the 4.6 million short tons developers had expected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-energy-carbon-capture-idUSKCN2523K8 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-energy-carbon-capture...