The US just invested more than $1 billion into carbon removal / The move represents a big step in the effort to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere—and slow down climate change.

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• mrgoodc4t@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Everyone here is mad that we’re doing this as if this is the only thing we’re doing. This… nor any of the other things suggested here… are either/or strategies. They’re all AND strategies.

  People just wanna bitch.

  Celebrate everything that is done to help slow down climate change and encourage more.

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  • agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The problem is, that this technology is already being used to greenwash fossil fuels. There’s a gas power plant currently running that got subsidies and good press for building a CCS facility next to the power plant. Something like 1% of the emissions were actually sequestered, but millions were wasted.

    If these subsidies are actually tied to reasonable requirements, I’m all in. History shows, though, that this is usually not the case.

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    • RohanWillAnswer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Part of the problem with new technologies is that they’re inherently less efficient than the same technologies once they’ve been further developed. And the problem with that is that it takes millions of dollars develop and deploy new technologies.

      This was once the biggest argument against solar and wind. It was expensive and markedly less efficient than coal. However, solar and wind are now pretty good and continuing to get better. All because people were willing to invest the many millions of dollars to develop those technologies.

      This is almost always the argument with new technologies. But to make the argument that it’s a good reason to stop investing in a wide variety of technologies that could literally help save the world is shortsighted.

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  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The other thing many people miss is that the article is ONLY about these specific DoE DAC hubs but other private ones already exist. ExxonMobile is running one in Wyoming.

    Tallgrass Energy is building another one in Wyoming.

    CarbonCapture is building another one (Project Bison) in Wyoming that is entirely solar powered.

    Those are just the private ones I’m aware of in my own state, which has a climate commitment of being carbon negative by 2050.

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• CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Behold! The Tree.

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  • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Algae isn’t it ?

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  • CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Until the tree dies and all that carbon is released back into the atmosphere.

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    • htrayl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      • Trees last hundreds of years
      • Trees die at differing times
      • Trees are replaced by new trees as they die
      • Trees support additional plant biomass

      Trees are not the solution. The forest is the solution.

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    • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, as said you cab use the wood for building stuff or reduce it to charcoal and store it for a long time, so taking it out permanently.

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  • Kalkaline@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And meadows.

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    • grayman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And ocean. Algae does a lot.

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    • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They don’t store that much carbon.

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• Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  People should keep in mind that even if we stop adding more carbon into the atmosphere today it still wouldn’t stop climate change because all the carbon we’ve put there already isn’t going anywhere. To truly stop and reverse climate change requires carbon capture in one way or another. It’s something we have to do.

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  • kicksystem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We’re sooooo far from even thinking about reversing climate change that this argument, though valid, sounds very misplaced. If can’t even get my friends, who are otherwise smart and decent people, to consider not eating meat.

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    • Kage520@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Try slow changes for them first. Impossible burgers are actually very tasty! And if seasoned well, taste pretty close to the real thing. Maybe convince them to do a day off meat per month at first, with these burgers to replace it.

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    • htrayl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      … Which is more reason to invest in carbon capture.

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  • Urga@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If only there was some kind of creature doing it that also provides oxigen in some way…

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    • 1847953620@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Unpossible

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• cooopsspace@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Carbon capture is a fucking scam, always has been.

  This just funnels more money into big oil.

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  • dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    1. Let big oil the everloving fuck of the planet.
    2. Tax the peasants to fund carbon capture theatre.
    3. Tear gas the protestors so they die quietly in their own homes.
    4. Profit???

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  • htrayl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Direct carbon capture is a scam. Alternatives like biochar and enhanced basalt weathering are definitely not.

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    • cooopsspace@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The article says it’s direct air capture. So everything I said about this being a scam is true.

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• mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why don’t we just simply throw every big oil exec into life in prison. That’d solve so many issues. Fuck em, they’re straight evil.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I prefer we send the corporations to Texas, and execute them. Not the CEOs and boards, throw them in jail. Execute the corporation by seizing all assets in the US, freezing all corporate accounts, and turning them into public utilities that are government owned, and operated either as a nonprofit, or all profits go to The sovereign fund of Humanity, which will be devoted to the establishment of global UBI.

    Start with the oil companies, and see how many other corporations fall in line.

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• ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is honestly probably more of a transition jobs program for oil workers and something designed to get a few extra votes in Congress. One of the projects is in my state (Louisiana) and the politicians all stressed how it’s creating jobs in the oil producing Southwest part of the state. And the other project is in East Texas. The companies even pinky swore that at least 10% of their workforce would be former oil workers.

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• harry315@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They rather should’ve planted a bunch of trees

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  • Yondoza@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I agree that planting trees is generally good, but doing so can’t sequester the amount of carbon released by humans since the start of the industrial revolution. We need other avenues to do that. If we returned forests back to how they were 100,000 years ago (untouched by modern humans) the new trees that would grow wouldn’t be able to soak up the CO2 released. Returning the forests to that state with the current world population isn’t feasible either as we need some of that land for agriculture.

    I get your sentiment, but we’re beyond a ‘plant trees’ solution.

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  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We’ve been doing that too. The US has more trees now then it a hundred years ago.

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  • BackupRainDancer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Amen, only angle I can see someone disagreeing with is trees becoming a potential bank of carbon to be fed back into the atmosphere via fuel for wildfires.

    I so wish there were better ways to control forest fires.

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    • mipadaitu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Forest fires do contribute to CO2 emissions, but naturally occurring forest fires are part of the carbon sequestration cycle. The ash, and charcoal leftover from forest fires trap carbon and provide for nutrients for the next forest.

      It’s not great to have half a continent burn at once, but regular, controlled fires are a net sink for carbon.

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    • harry315@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But even if they do die, if you always make sure to have enough trees alive, it’ll be a net zero.

      Also, I’m wondering that no company has started investigating to bury trees into abandoned coal mines yet. Like, take one, give back one for using a few hundred thousand years later.

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  • starman@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or moss. Moss is better

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    • Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s not what that article says. At all.

      As mentioned in the article, moss is pretty good at pulling particulates out of the air and “cleaning” it in that sense.

      But trying to get CO2 out of the air isn’t the same. Trees are very effective at this because they have a lot of mass and density are largely carbon themselves. When we talk about “carbon sequestering”, we’re generally talking things like trees because that carbon from the air has to go somewhere and having a huge dense chunk of carbon is basically the most efficient natural method.

      Moss is good at removing other particles, but trees are generally still better at carbon sequestering and CO2 removal.

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• BackupRainDancer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  From an industry standpoint everything the article says at the end as a critique is correct. We should be playing moneyball, those fans that draw in the particles would be an additional toll on the power grid.

  Instead spend the money on removing the emission sources and modernizing our grid/reducing fuel emissions. After weve exhausted low hanging fruit there we’ll have to throw money at offset tech.

  I suppose we’ll have to get the tech made eventually but there’s just so much to be reworked on our grids as is.

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  • mipadaitu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We’re past the reducing emissions stage.

    We need to BOTH cut emissions, and find a way to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere to get to a healthy planet. Not all the CO2 traps are going to be the right way to do it, but we need to research and figure out how to sustainably pull CO2 out, stop methane emissions, switch to a carbon free grid, and… everything else.

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    • BackupRainDancer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We are not beyond the emissions reduction stage and will not be until the grid is 100% renewable or other emissions free energy powered.

      Switching to clean energy is emissions reduction. Imo should be our #1 priority because we’re not reducing power demand without massive societal change.

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  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Instead spend the money on removing the emission sources and modernizing our grid/reducing fuel emissions.

    These things are not exclusive they are complimentary.; things like CarbonCapture’s Project Bison show how this can work.

    They will buy power from Solar / Wind farms which causes energy suppliers to build more of them. They use the power to run their DAC and Carbon Sequestration Wells. Their plants are modular so as more power becomes available and the tech matures they add more modules. They’re supposed to start operating later this year and when it does it will be removing three times more CO2 from the atmosphere than the worlds next largest plant.

    We are past the point of either / or we need and solutions if we are going to fix this problem in the required time frame.

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    • BackupRainDancer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I agree, however as much as I wish our governments would do both - they won’t. At least not This is why I said we should be playing money ball. I don’t disagree with anything you said.

      I think the additionallity to the grid as these renewables come online is great…but if they only cover the energy to run them then they’re not expanding the grid for everyone else. This emissions continue. I agree it incentvizes renewable builds but only if it powers more of the grid vs just being dedicated to the wells.

      We’re headed towards a world where corps are incentvizes to buy up all the clean energy on the market and leave consumers with the fossile fuels right now. We just don’t have enough clean or renewable energy to power everything and demand is only increasing.

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• Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Awesome. But we need more effort to clean up our oceans and reduce the waste and plastic pumped into them by mega corporations.

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  • nbafantest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That is a completely different problem

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    • Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The ocean also absorbs CO2 and produces half of our oxygen. Pollution is fucking that up.

      We don’t save the ocean, we don’t get to breathe.

      www.un.org/en/climatechange/science/…/ocean#:~:te….

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I can’t get the article to open. Is this going to worthwhile carbon capturing or is it going to be like that South American sequestration plant which just opened that will take 168,000 years to remove the just carbon we generated in 2022?

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• HikuNoir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The US should have asked me. I’ve got loads of shit ideas to spend money on.

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• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Worked for the Titanic!

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