Last I heard about the subject from people I generally trust on climate change the consensus seemed to be that carbon capture is at best an extremely minor player and at worst a distraction. (2024 saw around 41 billion metric tons put into the atmosphere and about 50 MILLION captured)
No doubt. This is the world’s first commercial demonstration of the technology, which means u til now no one has been able to do even that much. But since we’ve already locked in overshooting our emissions budget, we have no choice but to make this work.
Yeah :/ it'd be nice if there's a sudden leap forward in the tech but more likely we'll resort to geoengeneering and cause some serious collateral damage
Btw to be clear because tone and intention on social media is so hard: I'm absolutely not trying to lecture the actual expert here, just publicly commiserating
Hehe… no worries. I’m not an expert on CCS - as you say, it’s never existed before. But it’s clear that we’re going to need *some* way of getting to net negative emissions, not just net zero (at least for a while). So if this project works, that’s very good news. A big IF, though, no argument.