The conclusion: if we want to save ourselves from ever more dangerous weather there is no alternative to halting the production of carbon dioxide in the first place.
The conclusion: if we want to save ourselves from ever more dangerous weather there is no alternative to halting the production of carbon dioxide in the first place.
… yet.
All tech takes time and effort to develop to a point where it’s useful. Sure there are a lot of dead ends too. But some carbon capture is better than none.
It really depends. If it displaces investment from a more effective solution, it’s worse. And if the side effects are worse than the benefits, it’s also worse.
the problem with carbon capture is it’s somewhat akin to saving money when you have loads of credit card debt. In order for it to make any sense at all you need the process to produce less carbon that powering it emits, which essentially means you have to power it with renewables, and until the world is on 100% renewables it would be better to just use them to replace fossil fuel production instead.