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The U.S. Department of Energy will award up to $100 million for projects that remove CO2 from the atmosphere (www.scientificamerican.com)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (14 children)

Very bad strategy "no need to fix things ASAP, we can reverse it later". Not to mention that the massive amounts of energy need to come from somewhere.

[–] p1mrx 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Removing CO2 from the atmosphere is fixing things ASAP. The alternative is leaving it in the atmosphere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

There's no chance that they can remove the yearly added CO2. If they were serious, net zero would be 2025

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Look at the MAC diagram here and then tell me we need to start with the least sensible thing first.

The issue is not removing it or leaving it, it is not emitting even more and at growing rates on top of that.

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