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.

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    Except they will rot down there and release methane and CO2. Stopping emissions is step 0 of this process, then we have to find a way to re-fossilize captured carbon.

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      Not going to rot that far down under the water. Perpetually cold water + pressure does weird things to land dwellers.

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        Even if you could put megatons of hemp at the bottom of the ocean and stop it from floating back, it would be like a whalefall. Life down there would go insane with a limitless supply of carbohydrates.

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          Sure, if it was in a natural state rather than being hydraulically compressed to just under diamond density. Try reading the original plan before you start running off at the mouth with issues that don’t exist.

          Unless you want to promote disinformation. You are currently lying, and are now tagged as “Lies about hemp based climate change solutions.”

          You don’t have a degree in ecology, sustainable agriculture, marine biology, or marine chemistry with the lies that you decided to promote.