Experts warn the US must do more to boost demand for carbon removal
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/10/1105392/experts-warn-the-us-must-do-more-to-boost-demand-for-carbon-removal/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=tr_social&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement
by techreview
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I didn’t read the article so excuse this comment, but demand for carbon capture isn’t what we need. It won’t hurt to work out better carbon capture technology, but what we need to do is STOP damaging things instead of slapping bandaids on gaping arterial wounds.
From the article:
In 2022, the US made a massive bet on the carbon removal industry, committing $3.5 billion to build four major regional hubs in an effort to scale up the nascent sector. But industry observers fear that market demand isn’t building fast enough to support it, even with these substantial federal grants and other subsidies.
Some are now calling for the Department of Energy to redirect a portion of the money earmarked to build direct-air-capture (DAC) plants toward purchases of greenhouse-gas removal instead. At issue is the lack of natural demand for the product that these plants ultimately generate: carbon dioxide that, in most cases, is immediately buried underground. Businesses and organizations that purchase credits representing that CO2 do so only to meet climate neutrality goals, which are mostly self-imposed. Carbon removal proponents worry that without greater government efforts to prop up ongoing demand, some of the facilities funded through the program may not survive—or even be built.
Breakthrough Energy, the Bill Gates–backed climate and clean energy organization, released a commentary today calling for more government support for demand to ensure that the industry doesn’t stall out in its infancy.
EXPERTS?! WE DON’T NEED NO STINKING EXPERTS!
What about carbon release?
Ukraine needs to be supported, and the military divisions should make a global protection division whose first task is to stabilize global temperatures, and future tasks can be to expand rainforests n stuff. Because apparently the military is going to keep existing. So thats what we need to incorporate it into.