The incoming Trump administration will have a say in whether federally backed direct air capture projects in Louisiana move forward
tl;dr waste of money
Worst then that, it is an excuse to continue or increase emissions and distract people from real solutions. We need to reduce emissions first. It might be valuable someday once the low hanging fruit has been dealt with.
I would say its a yes and. Yes it costs a lot of money and it’s not as efficient as trees long term. But Trees + these machines + no longer burning and releasing CO2 at the current rate + land rewilding = a chance at survival.
Its a waste of valuable resources that could be used on known, more efficient ways of reducing emissions. Carbon capture isn’t here to save us, it is here to save oil and gas
It’s not a single bullet solution. There is no single bullet solution.
It is one bullet, in a hail of bullets fired at the problem. They’ll all be needed.Use coal to pull carbon from the air. Makes total sense! /s
But, it’s “clean coal!!!” /s
It will be necessary once we’ve done all the much more effective and cheaper stuff. For now, it’s important to make it better for when we need to focus on it. That said, anything more than academic at this point is probably designed to allow emitters to keep emitting longer.
If its viable enough and could be stop/started quickly enough I could see it as a dump for negative cost electricity.
It’s a big fuckin’ mystery.
