Lol it was always a lie, just like “clean coal technology.”
The capitalists will always use the crises they cause to part you with more of your capital. They’re just the evolution of ye olde traveling snake oil salesman that used their grift to become the world’s owners.
And because so many poor, deluded peasants truly, darkly, hilariously believe capitalism can solve the problems capitalism propagates, we’re going to be pumping carbon shit into the air until the capitalists have no more surface peasants left alive to bark orders at from their temperature controlled bunker compounds.
And even then, the owners will somehow still blame the corpses for not implementing their orders correctly or something.
Carbon capture can make sense.
Not sure how you can spin that as some sort of capitalist shenanigans when in reality, a lot of universities and start ups created stuff with very little funding.
There is existing, and there is being effective for the advertised job. Carbon capture certainly exists in different forms and makes sense as an addon to an existing emitter. It’s hyped to be a lot more than what it does, even used to excuse more emissions growth, and that’s the snake oil being talked about. In the end the only true “solution” is to reduce the actual production of emissions, something that the overall world is not will to do. And I put solution in quotes because we’re decades behind on action that would be meaningful, having exponentially increased the pollution since then. We’d have to do far more than just stop emissions to fix anything.
It’s always seemed nonsensical to me. Now I studied the computer stuff, not physics but… it seems like you’d need a gigafuckton (SI unit right there) of energy to get the CO2 levels down in an appreciable way when the levels were talking about here are in the hundreds of parts per million… just seems like it’d be incredibly inefficient at best
It’s even simpler to see how stupid it is. It costs more energy to capture the carbon and store it than is gained by burning it in the first place. It’s literally more energy efficient to just not burn it at all.
If not burning it were an option, we’d be doing that. But we aren’t, so it isn’t.
So we need to do something with the stuff in the air…
Not burning it is an option though.
…it's just cheaper not to. If you ignore the externalities for it. Which we do.
I’m with you. Also, it seems like it would be much more efficient to do carbon capture at the source, where the fuel is being used, like a power plant, where the concentrations are relatively high, compared to atmospheric capture where CO2 is less than 0.1%.
Yeah. Carbon capture of flue gas would be much more efficient… but we're also not really doing that so…
I drank the carbon capture kool-aid for a time early on. It sounded too good to be true. Unfortunately it was.
