UC Berkeley scientists make groundbreaking climate discovery

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The key info:

> The specially designed, porous yellow powder dubbed COF-999 the group created can capture carbon dioxide from the air, keeping it from being released until it can be moved underground or to a capture facility.

This material is to the climate change problem what Ozempic is to the human obesity problem; it allows good outcomes without having to be good.

It really depends on how cheap this is. We are pumping out a LOT of CO2, and what works in the lab fails >90% of the time as a product. I hope they have something with this but my skepticism is usually correct on these things.

The fact that it is expected to take 1 - 2 years before the material can be sent out into the field to be used again supports your skepticism.

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