>Direct air capture and other technological approaches collected and stored only around 10,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2023.
My understanding is that there are currently 2BMT being pulled by all technologies. It’s mostly CCS, and DAC is a very small part of that, but still the total is a bit more significant against that 37BMT that’s being added.
As the article states, this year’s emissions grew by about 1% over last year. It might be useful to compare that rate of annual increase to the rate of change in CCS volume, which may quadruple if the IEA gets its way. And the DAC capacity seems to have a lot more promise, at least more than any fossil emissions phase-out pledges. We have DAC demonstration projects that aim for 1MMT per hub, and it might not be too difficult to stand up a few tens and maybe hundreds of those in some near future.
Yeah, we’re still likely to lose the race to avoid a 1.5 degree change, but it’s going to be a bit closer than what the math of the MIT Review author suggests.
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I’m puzzled by the assertion that
>Direct air capture and other technological approaches collected and stored only around 10,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2023.
My understanding is that there are currently 2BMT being pulled by all technologies. It’s mostly CCS, and DAC is a very small part of that, but still the total is a bit more significant against that 37BMT that’s being added.
As the article states, this year’s emissions grew by about 1% over last year. It might be useful to compare that rate of annual increase to the rate of change in CCS volume, which may quadruple if the IEA gets its way. And the DAC capacity seems to have a lot more promise, at least more than any fossil emissions phase-out pledges. We have DAC demonstration projects that aim for 1MMT per hub, and it might not be too difficult to stand up a few tens and maybe hundreds of those in some near future.
Yeah, we’re still likely to lose the race to avoid a 1.5 degree change, but it’s going to be a bit closer than what the math of the MIT Review author suggests.