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Engineering/inventing ways to emit less CO2 is fixing the root cause of the problem. Spending energy that likely came from fossil fuel burning to "capture" CO2
by schainks 2y ago
Engineering/inventing ways to emit less CO2 is fixing the root cause of the problem.
Spending energy that likely came from fossil fuel burning to "capture" CO2 is like saying you've found a perpetual motion machine. The engineering is simpler for this in some ways, but it's still not really a "good" solution.
I agree organic capture is a good idea, and CHEAPEST thing we could do to have an impact dump iron into the open ocean to spawn a phytoplankton bloom, but there is no money to be made doing that.
- sfvisser 2y agoIsn’t the point of most carbon capture schemes to use renewables (likely solar) as the energy source. Like Terraform Industries? Don’t know if it will work or is economically viable, but sounds pretty win-win to me.
- schainks 2y agoThere is a lot of R&D predating mass cheap solar where proposals do things like have it captured at the production site or arbitrage cheap off peak energy to store it since the grid capacity is there anyway. Modern solar definitely makes this idea more attractive but you’re still emitting more carbon to build the solar in the hopes you’ll store more than you produced in X years. It is not a great value proposition versus making the grid more efficient or just emitting less by using that solar for the grid instead of sequestration.