• Tar_Alcaran
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    1 month ago

    Capturing all the extra carbon from the atmosphere is not as expensive as it sounds like. It can easily be done by a few rich countries in very few decades once we stop adding more there every day.

    What?

    For starters, carbon capture takes an insane amount of power. And to follow up: we couldn’t even build the facilities is “a few decades” even if we free power and infinite money.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Yep, “insane amounts” of power like you what you get by investing something like 1% of a few countries’ GDP in PV panels.