The roughly two-hectare facility, still under construction, is hosting what could be called a carbon removal Olympics. It will pilot eight different versions of a similar technology using various machines that will suck in air, remove the carbon dioxide and send it to a central plant where it will be compressed and liquified for storage deep underground.
The winner of this initiative wouldn’t get a medal on a podium. Instead, Deep Sky, the Montreal-based project developer behind it, plans to take the best versions of the direct air capture technology that prove most effective in Canada’s climate and deploy them on a commercial scale all over the country.
How to suck carbon right out of the air sustainably and cheaply -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree
ALL the plant mass on earth only takes up about 56% of carbon emissions from fossil fuels (there are additional emissions from agriculture, fires, and other natural sources). To break even we would have to plant an additional 0.4 earth’s of plant life, cut it all down on new years, and find somewhere to hid it that it will never rot or otherwise break down.
We are so far beyond fucked. The only way to not return the atmosphere to a prehistoric state is to stop burning fossil fuels all together.
Even if we moved to wood as a replacement fuel for areas that can’t afford to electrify overnight it would be better than coal/oil/gas as the carbon in wood was only very recently pulled from the atmosphere. Having fuel forests would grab that carbon and re-solidify it into wood via solar power!
Tech bros always re-invent trains but worse.
Climate bros always re-invent trees but worse.
Crypto bros always re-invent MLMs but worse.
It’s like carcinisation.
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