Pretty sure they will find a way to look good on paper while still doing more harm than good
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2024
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They'll all buy credits, problem solved!
They'd still do more harm
I bet they're too dumb and poor to even know how to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Only people with really big penises and lots of money know how to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Oh, well...
They can't even remove micro plastics from the environment and even my peasant testicles can do that
But then the line might go up more slowly for a while! Everything must be sacrificed to the line!
Step 1 - Take carbon from atmosphere
Step 2 - Compress carbon into diamonds
Step 3 - ???
Step 4 - Profit!
Swap steps 1 and 3.
There is a company trying to do this.
It’s very stupid.
Carbon capture in general is stupid.
First law of thermodynamics: energy cannot be created or destroyed.
In a perfect world with 100% efficient capture, it would take just as much energy to remove the carbon as it took to put it there in the first place, so if we just wanted to offset what we put into the atmosphere this year, we’d have to double the total global energy production. If we wanted to start putting a dent into “legacy carbon” we’d have to start generating more than twice the energy we use. Half that new energy infrastructure would have to go towards extracting carbon, so even though we’ve double the supply of electricity, electric costs would likely skyrocket, as electric companies now have to pay to maintain an entirely separate grid that only carbon capture facilities are using.
So unless every government in the world wants to cripple their economies for decades by forking over trillions of dollars to double the scale of their energy production, it’s never going to happen.
You do realize we have an unlimited energy source burning down on us during the day? Energy isn't the issue here. We already overproduce during the day (though electric cars might take the load off of that in the near future).
Also you don't have to make the carbon go poof, you just have to capture it and store in in another form (that's not in the atmosphere). So yes, if you have a way to capture it and you use solar power (or any other renewable) you can reduce the carbon in the air.
Earth isn't a closed system.