current state
No state will be efficient. Burning shit in reverse takes more energy than you got out of it in the first place. It’s a physical impossibility to make an energy efficient direct carbon capture plant.
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Zacryon@feddit.org 3 days ago
Current state of the art DAC plants are incredibly inefficient. Also, even if they would come with efficiency that is comparable to trees, they would still lack other positive ecological functions of trees.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 2 days ago
icelimit@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
It was always going to be inefficient trying to capture something that’s 400ppm.
Inucune@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Currently running an algae farm. First step is water, which holds 8x the gasous CO2 as the air it is exposed to.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Algae make our oxygen. Biomimicry is the way to go
Justas@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Genetically modifying algae to be more efficient at photosynthesis would be the way to go. However, I think it was attempted many times in the last 30 years and I have not seen any breakthroughs.