Go Inside an Industrial Plant That Sucks Carbon Dioxide Straight Out of the Air

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4. Article does not start out too well..

"Carbon dioxide emissions must decrease to nearly zero by 2040 if global warming by the end of this century is to be held to 2 °C."

Maybe if they said end of this DECADE instead of century. We are already over 1.4 degree C, and are still adding CO2. Just what is already in that atmosphere we will be well above 2deg C.


If we do not put the CO2 in the atmosphere in the first place, we would not have to pull it back out. Burning 1 ton of coal puts 2.86 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. (And this does not include the fossil fuels burnt to get the coal out of the ground and to the furnace.)

I have a 10kw solar array I installed exactly 3 years ago, and I have produced 38megawatt hours of electricity in that time. It would have taken 38 thousand pounds of burning coal to produce the same amount of electricity. That is also 54 tons of CO2 NOT produced by my one personal solar array.

Who do is send my $400 to $1000 per ton of CO2 out of the atmosphere to? Heck I would be happy with the $100 per ton.