not only do we need to be carbon negative but we need to move and store more volume than any industry in history … or is it all industry in history. the idea is absurd either way.
It is a historically unprecedented and utterly necessary project. Only a combination of all of the above can even get us close. It’s way too late to be choosy.
Picking up trash with a net is a a little easier than collecting 1 trillion tonnes of CO2 from 5.1 quadrillion tonnes of atmosphere, then somehow storing it directly or converting it back into into stable solid or liquid for storage.
It’s not impossible, but in terms of difficulty and expense the two are orders of magnitudes apart from each other. Like “inventing the wheel” vs “landing on the moon.”
not only do we need to be carbon negative but we need to move and store more volume than any industry in history … or is it all industry in history. the idea is absurd either way.
It is a historically unprecedented and utterly necessary project. Only a combination of all of the above can even get us close. It’s way too late to be choosy.
Yeah, this is like the inventor that wanted to use floating booms to clean up the ocean… Totally impossible
Picking up trash with a net is a a little easier than collecting 1 trillion tonnes of CO2 from 5.1 quadrillion tonnes of atmosphere, then somehow storing it directly or converting it back into into stable solid or liquid for storage.
It’s not impossible, but in terms of difficulty and expense the two are orders of magnitudes apart from each other. Like “inventing the wheel” vs “landing on the moon.”