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Are there any valuable economic outputs of direct air capture? Things like growing trees and soil can augment the output of existing industries. For example, p
by goda90 4y ago
Are there any valuable economic outputs of direct air capture?
Things like growing trees and soil can augment the output of existing industries. For example, plant tree > tree captures carbon > cut down tree and use wood for durable goods and structures. It captures carbon in a profitable way. Likewise, growing the soil can improve farm yields and reduce reliance on chemical inputs.
- burkaman 4y agoThere are some ideas for using the captured CO2, but they're all pretty early and unproven: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_air_capture#Applications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_air_capture#Application...
- bryanlarsen 4y agoSome DAC startups (like terraformindustries.com) believe it is economically viable to produce methane / natural gas from air captured CO2. They obviously cannot take credit for CO2 reduction, but can sell the methane as carbon-neutral. Another potentially useful product besides the two you already mentioned is plastic.
- Aperocky 4y agoIt should be like recharging a battery. in this case, CO2 -> gas would be most useful. That gas will turn to CO2 again, but the benefit is we don't have to drill for it, which will introduce more carbon into the atmosphere.