I wouldn't go as far as to argue that it's a scam, I do think it's a complex issue which might require rethinking the way we geographically distribute infrastru

I wouldn't go as far as to argue that it's a scam, I do think it's a complex issue which might require rethinking the way we geographically distribute infrastructure. Carbon capture from the atmosphere is certainly extremely inefficient and not too practical (yet, at least), but carbon capture straight from large emitters like at factories should be much more efficient as it isn't having to go through as much air. Combined with the difficulty of transporting electricity in many circumstances, carbon capture solutions which involve cleaning up the output from factories using something like an on-site small-modular reactor are probably a lot more practical. While of course the SMR would be better spent replacing a fossil fuel plant in the immediate term, in the longer term the output from the factory would also need to be cleaned up anyway. So given enough serious interest in building SMRs/getting rid of fossil fuels, the temporary cost of allocating an SMR to carbon capture at a factory would be small compared to allocating it to replacing a fossil fuel plant (since another would be built soon enough to replace the latter).