U.S. unveils plans for large facilities to capture carbon directly from air

[rntn]

https://www.science.org/content/article/us-unveils-plans-for-large-facilities-to-capture-carbon-directly-from-air

[AtlasBarfed]

A 1.2 billion dollar pork project? IN TEXAS? That somewhat leads to big oil being able to advertise handwaving away emissions (it's ok, we'll suck them out!).

I am SHOCKED!

[nmeagent]

$1000/t with a goal of $100/t? According to the article, humans currently emit 38 Gt/year. So that's $38 trillion/year with a goal of $3.8 trillion/year to cover current emissions. Probably doable as a cooperative global effort, but yikes.

[rapjr9]

Most of the previous projects have failed, previous wasted money was $1.1B:

https://gizmodo.com/the-energy-department-blew-1-1-billion-o...

https://thebulletin.org/2022/09/plagued-by-failures-carbon-c...

[klysm]

I’m not very educated on the topic, but this seems like the only way our economic system knows how to “solve” the problem

[polski-g]

What is wrong with planting bamboo?