Carbon capture is Silicon Valley bullshit. We need to address emissions, not hope for a magic bullet.
Fund public transit, tax the shit out of cars, suspend oil extraction.
We need to act decisively because we waited too long.
In the long run won't we need Carbon Capture to some extent? Yeah it won't be for a long while - it would need to be done once we're on fully renewable power. So while I whole heartedly agree, this money needs to go towards making the latter possible, won't this atleast provide some positive aspect many years down the road?
In the long run there may very well be some value - but it'll take us an extremely long time to out do those masters of carbon capture... trees.
Grow a forest, bury it under ground, repeat.
You'll capture a whole lot of carbon that way!
But, and even easier approach is just not digging up coal because that is highly efficient captured carbon that we could just leave captured.
At the end of the day, folks are burning coal for power. It is staggeringly inefficient to use coal power to capture carbon, it is (currently) quite inefficient to use solar power to capture carbon.
It is so much fucking easier to just leave it in the ground.
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