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Sure, we need to spend in proportion to the effectiveness of the spending on this. So, $ per tonnes not added or removed. If you can remove a giga tonne for the
by jillesvangurp 5y ago
Sure, we need to spend in proportion to the effectiveness of the spending on this. So, $ per tonnes not added or removed. If you can remove a giga tonne for the same money it would take to avoid adding a mega-tonne, go for it. Unfortunately that's far from the current practice of carbon capture.
That line of reasoning would lead you to de-fund any form of carbon capture scheme because there is about a 3-4 orders of magnitude efficiency difference between the two. Much cheaper to prevent a million tonnes from being added than to capture a few tonnes. It just doesn't add up to meaningful results. And arguably keeping the polluters that push for this in business actually adds to the problem to a large extent than their own ability to offset their carbon.