Look up the best we’ve done in CCS and DAC amounts. They like to brag on the websites how many millions of tons they’ve done (usually total, not per year). Then look up the annual increase of emissions each year. The units are completely different scales. The best DAC we have is a percent of a percent, and that’s taking energy to run. Then there’s the cost in energy and resources to sequester the carbon, because if you don’t do that, it’s for nothing (but $$$).
I’ve had my years of thinking maybe we can do this or do that and finally realizing physics doesn’t get fooled. Can’t run this in reverse. I’m over it. We aren’t slowing down the demand and the output. We won’t.
We still must reach net zero, and that will probably involve carbon capture. We’ll also have to adapt in many ways, but that’s a different topic.
Look up the best we’ve done in CCS and DAC amounts. They like to brag on the websites how many millions of tons they’ve done (usually total, not per year). Then look up the annual increase of emissions each year. The units are completely different scales. The best DAC we have is a percent of a percent, and that’s taking energy to run. Then there’s the cost in energy and resources to sequester the carbon, because if you don’t do that, it’s for nothing (but $$$).
I’ve had my years of thinking maybe we can do this or do that and finally realizing physics doesn’t get fooled. Can’t run this in reverse. I’m over it. We aren’t slowing down the demand and the output. We won’t.