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The memes of the climate
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The way I understood the post: You can‘t generate electricity by burning fossil fuel, then capture the CO2 via direct air capture and still have a net gain of energy. (I guess CCS would still allow for a minor net energy gain because it doesn‘t need to fight entropy as much, but then again why bother, if one could use cheap renewables instead)
But yes, direct air capture has already been built, it‘s a necessary technology but must be powered by renewables to make sense.
Yeah, that's essentially my point. DAC just introduces an unnecessary step to the process, which will result in some efficiency loss. Not releasing CO2 in the first place (by using renewables) should always be preferable.
It has to go farther than that. Not producing CO2 is the bare minimum, we also need to take measures to remove it as much as we are able