This is a nice sentiment that I agree with as a sentiment, but it’s not realistic.
If it takes the equivalent of 1ton of carbon emissions to capture 1ton of carbon emissions, you are literally going nowhere compared to just replacing fossil fuels.
So this technology needs to be extremely efficient, otherwise the amount of extra energy generation we need - on top of what we already have, renewable or not - becomes astronomical. So far it does not look anywhere close to being sufficiently efficient.
There’s no way this will ever be economical at the scale we need to fix what we’ve done.
Obviously there’s more to it than just saying go, but honestly the economics of it should not matter whatsoever.
It could cost every penny on the planet and still be worth it, the alternative is the end.
This is a nice sentiment that I agree with as a sentiment, but it’s not realistic.
If it takes the equivalent of 1ton of carbon emissions to capture 1ton of carbon emissions, you are literally going nowhere compared to just replacing fossil fuels.
So this technology needs to be extremely efficient, otherwise the amount of extra energy generation we need - on top of what we already have, renewable or not - becomes astronomical. So far it does not look anywhere close to being sufficiently efficient.
It doesn’t need to be