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How does carbon capture help? Wouldn't it need to be stored somewhere? What happens if the storage leaks? People say that trees is a bad solution because the ca

• jillesvangurp 3y ago
  We're emitting around 40 billion tonnes of CO2 per year on this planet. This removes 1000. We need another 40 million or so of these facilities to take out what we emit. And mind you, what we emit, is still growing, by about 300M tonne per year. So, at best you could say that this slows down this growth by a tiny meaningless percentage. At this scale, it's a cynical form of green washing that is so futile that it's not even worth talking about. The point of installations like this is to allow polluters to buy off their sins. The church built a booming business out of allowing people to buy off their sins in the middle ages. It didn't really help but it made people feel good about themselves. This sort of is the modern day equivalent.
  • RetroTechie 3y ago
    Worse: this type of greenwashing gives businesses (and politics) an excuse to do even less about the actual problem. Direct-air carbon capture is (at best) about as useful as re-arranging deckchairs on the Titanic.
• tshaddox 3y ago
  Do what now? Who is complaining that “the carbon is still there?” Surely the total amount of carbon on Earth is relatively fixed and only changes slightly from, like, meteorites and space launches and radioactive decay.