> I find it impressive that people use CAT to justify a fatalistic attitude. I guess looking at that map of the world showing responses ranging from "Insuffici

> I find it impressive that people use CAT to justify a fatalistic attitude. I guess looking at that map of the world showing responses ranging from "Insufficient" to "Critically Insufficient" fills you with a warm fuzzy sense of optimism for the future. When you say "there are plants already running" - you must mean the demonstration projects that produce CO2 for soft drinks (that will go back into the atmosphere)[0] > There are currently 18 direct air capture plants operating worldwide, capturing almost 0.01 Mt CO2/year...In the Net Zero Emissions by 2050 Scenario, direct air capture is scaled up to capture almost 60 Mt CO2/year by 2030. So great, we only need to increase by a factor of 6000 in 7 years. > Plans for a total of eleven DAC facilities are now in advanced development. If all of these planned projects were to go ahead, DAC deployment would reach around 5.5 Mt CO2 by 2030; this is more than 700 times today’s capture rate, but less than 10% of the level of deployment needed to get on track with the Net Zero Scenario. ^This is your optimistic scenario: IFF every single one of these planned facilities are actually built, we'll have 10% of requirements. [0] https://www.iea.org/reports/direct-air-capture https://www.iea.org/reports/direct-air-capture