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In a U.S. First, a Commercial Plant Starts Pulling Carbon From the Air (www.nytimes.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup. It's a technological antisolution.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

An argument is that this is what we should use excess green electricity for. But it does not make sense to run such expensive equipment only a few hours each day. I prefer matching the supply to demand with hydro storage, not to mention that most grids are nowhere near 100% renewable.