“Fossil fuel interests see a clear benefit in promoting direct air capture as a means to preserve the dominance of dirty fossil fuels,” said one advocate.

“Direct air capture is expensive, unproven, and will ultimately make almost no difference in reducing climate pollution… Capturing just a quarter of our annual carbon emissions would require all of the power currently generated in the country.”

  • sbvEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The unproven technology has been a key focus of oil and gas lobbyists, who argue that fossil fuel companies can continue their planet-heating extraction activities if plants are built to remove the pollution they cause.

    these guys

    • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.orgOP
      33·
      1 year ago

      Yep. The main thing is profit over people.

      Investing into nuclear would be better in the long term. We have gone a long way in improving fail safes and reusing the waste.