Think of the current coal power industry as essentially “digging a lot of pre-sequestered CO2 out of the ground and putting it into the air”. This plan limits t

Think of the current coal power industry as essentially “digging a lot of pre-sequestered CO2 out of the ground and putting it into the air”. This plan limits the coal industry to only using what’s already in the air, while we build parallel systems to actively sequester air CO2. Building massive carbon capture plants for this purpose also brings economies of scale to other carbon sequestration projects. Finally, you can imagine making a commitment to permanently burying 5% of the output of the synthetic plants, so every round trip the CO2 makes reduces it by 5%.