Capture

[Jolly]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/facing-brutal-climate-math-us-bets-billions-on-direct-air-capture/ar-AA19ZPEd

Since about 90%+ comes from nature, isn't this throwing money down a rathole?

[Copper]

Artificial trees

They are probably powered by coal.

[Mik]

Once they perfect this the trees will suffocate.

[jon-nyc]

@Jolly said in Capture:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/facing-brutal-climate-math-us-bets-billions-on-direct-air-capture/ar-AA19ZPEd

Since about 90%+ comes from nature, isn't this throwing money down a rathole?

All of it comes from nature but I don’t see your point.

[Jolly]

The point is we are going to spend an awful lot of money to try to capture a gas that is not primarily produced by man. A gas that if the atmospheric levels fall too low, say less than 300 PPM, plants suffer.

[jon-nyc]

The greenhouse effect is uninterested in the source of the greenhouse gas, so I don’t see how that matters. If your true concern is that we’ll remove too much carbon and damage the earth, that seems really unlikely but would be quite reversible since the gas would be stored in one form or another.

[Copper]

Getting the eco greens to add CO2 to the atmosphere would be like getting them to remove their covid masks.

[Doctor Phibes]

@jon-nyc said in Capture:

The greenhouse effect is uninterested in the source of the greenhouse gas, so I don’t see how that matters. If your true concern is that we’ll remove too much carbon and damage the earth, that seems really unlikely but would be quite reversible since the gas would be stored in one form or another.

Climate change "sceptics" say that there's nothing mankind could do that could possibly affect the earth, as it's just so big.

Except for this, apparently.