• silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
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    1 year ago

    Basically: you can do it, but for almost all applications, it’s a lot cheaper to avoid burning fossil fuels than it is to remove CO2 from the atmosphere afterwards.

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      1 year ago

      The problem is there’s a few hundred billion tonnes or so that needs removing and it can’t go from 0 to billions of tonnes per year overnight, but as soon as you start doing it publicly propagandists will flock to it and use it to delay more effective and pressing action.

    • Kittenstix@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Considering it took eons to get the carbon into solid form from the last time it was in the atmosphere, that makes sense.