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What about economically? Think of the huge investment required to extract fossil fuels and process them into something useful. Now imagine something similarly
by lozenge 3y ago
What about economically?
Think of the huge investment required to extract fossil fuels and process them into something useful. Now imagine something similarly huge in scale, but the output product, instead of being incredibly valuable, is actually useless.
- janalsncm 3y agoCaptured carbon isn’t worthless. It represents an amount of damage that wasn’t done to the environment in the future. There’s no free lunch here. You either pay the cost now or you pay it later. Florida is already paying since their homes are quickly becoming uninsurable, and that’s not going to get better.
- david-gpu 3y agoLots of carbon have already been captured, in the form of the fossil fuels that remain underground. What we need to do is to stop releasing it into our atmosphere. Once that is largely done, we can start talking about the much more costly process of recapturing it from the atmosphere.
- lozenge 3y agoSure, carbon capture has a benefit to society. Society doesn't want to pay the bill though, which could be something like $90,000 per American. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0081648#s6 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...