• cmhe@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Well, it shouldn’t be carbon neutral… It should used to get carbon out of the atmosphere and into a less damaging substance.

    Carbon capture does not replace getting rid of our dependency on burning fossil fuels.

    We wouldn’t get back the same amount that we are burning anyway. So this approach is worse, because dumb people think it would save us, without us changing the way we produce energy.

    It is worse, because it is a distraction from actually doing something.

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      4 hours ago

      Until we get rid of the necessity for gasoline, this is better than extracting new fossil fuels and might be better than biofuels produced far away.

      Also, I don’t think any form of carbon capture from atmosphere is realistic at scale to reduce CO2. You need atv least as much energy as we are burning just to keep up, and that’s assuming 100% efficiency which is impossible. Focusing on reducing new CO2 emitted seems more effective