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100 million barrels of oil are extracted each day. And to that you should add coal, and natural gas (not sure about the volumes), that was pretty much safe unde
by gmuslera 4y ago
100 million barrels of oil are extracted each day. And to that you should add coal, and natural gas (not sure about the volumes), that was pretty much safe underground.
And most carbon capture proposals are meant to keep extracting as much as now or even more buried carbon, while somewhat "compensating" by some long term capture, that always end on not being for so long (i.e. trees, that release it back following the carbon cycle) or taking too long or require a lot of energy or whatever that will not be paid anyway. What matters is to keep making profit releasing new carbon to the cycle.
And it is getting too late for doing something meaningful. The carbon we already released today will be in up there for another century at least. And feedback loops are starting to catch up with their own new emissions (like permafrost thawing or more emissions from wetlands and similar), and adding more heating (i.e. less ice=> less albedo => more heat absorption)