Is Carbon Removal in Trouble?

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Have any of the carbon sequestration companies sequestered enough carbon to matter? Have any of the carbon capture companies captured enough carbon to matter? So far it seems like no they have not.

Surely this question is in bad faith. Technologies start in a mode where they are maturing; asking if they emerge from the gate already scaled up is asking for far too much.

They have been emerging from the gate for the last twenty years though

Uh huh. How long was PV emerging before it crossed a threshold and took off? PV was invented in 1946 (exactly when is debatable; it could be said to have been earlier) and didn't explode until about 2010 (if not later).

So your observation doesn't excuse the non sequitur. Things have low adoption until they don't (if they ever do). This doesn't mean they will necessarily take off, only that the observation that they haven't yet can't by itself be used to conclude they never will.

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