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The U.S. Department of Energy will award up to $100 million for projects that remove CO2 from the atmosphere (www.scientificamerican.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Isn't this just greenwashing? What an exercise in futility to pay to extract CO2 from the atmosphere whilst pumping CO2 into the atmosphere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

If done instead of reducing current emissions, 100%. That said, there is a real need to invest in carbon capture technology now so that it can be more useful in the future. It's a small part of the overall strategy to improve our climate future, but an important one as we get further along in the century and emissions already are reduced. So, yeah, if people hold up this technology and say "see, let's keep drilling", fuck that. But as long as it's an "and" not an "or", this is a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Excess CO2 is wreaking havoc on our planet and quickly getting worse. Why wouldn't we try to pull it out of the atmosphere?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Because no CCS method has worked. Besides the sea equilibrium means CO2 will be favoured and replaced.

There are no free rides on the thermodynamic train, this energy will probably come from fossil fuels depending on where in the US. I'm not against the idea, but it's been a false promise of hope for a decade or so.