“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.”

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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

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      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.