A step forward for CO2 capture

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2 pointsimartin2k3 comments

A good deep dive on interesting technology.

As a "solution" to global warming, we need a lot more development before this works. Or at least different economic incentives.

$800 to remove a ton of CO2 from the atmosphere is very expensive, considering that buying the 100 gallons of gasoline that would release that CO2 costs only about $300 today.

Can that gap be bridged in a decade? Hopefully.

Concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere were as high as 4,000 parts per million (ppm, on a molar basis) during the Cambrian period about 500 million years ago to as low as 180 ppm during the Quaternary glaciation of the last two million years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth's_atmo...

We are now at 413. Life thrived even at 4000 ppm so there is no need to remove it.

Plants need at least 150 ppm to survive. So, you want us to reduce CO2 and brings us closer to that dangerous level? If plants die, we will too. You know that, right?

Giving me -1 for telling the truth.

How mature ...

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