• ceoofanarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    25·
    5 months ago

    Carbon Capture is hardly anything other than an excuse to not lower emissions and potentially their profits, on par with the nonsense argument we don’t need to lower emissions because unspecified magic technology will be invented to solve anything any day now.

  • McLarny@lemmy.world
    12·
    5 months ago

    I have read somewhere, that the scenarios for becoming Carbon neutral in 2045 allways involve calculations using also some way of carbon capture. Not sure if true but it‘s definitely not reasuring for the path we‘re on.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
      16·
      5 months ago

      I’ve heard climate scientists argue that most estimates they see are bullshit that isn’t grounded in the science and seems to exist purely to properly up the fossil fuel industry

    • Meron35@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 months ago

      Any kind of carbon neutral scenario will almost definitely require carbon capture, simply because many processes are extremely difficult to decarbonise, e.g. heavy industry such as cement and steel manufacturing. Even beyond niche industries, fossil fuels still remain a crucial input to so many things; oil for example is required for aviation, road bitumen, and polymers in plastics, resins, and fibers.

      As despicable as the petro giants are, the extremely high energy capacity of fossils fuels and their use as raw materials means that replacing entirely them with renewables is unviable for neutrality.

      • Don_alForno@feddit.org
        2·
        5 months ago

        About our only actual hope is a MASSIVE switch to nuclear power across the world

        Even if it wasn’t the most expensive and second most stupid form of power generation there is, it’d be a 50+ year “solution” (at the very least) for a 10 year problem. Look at the actual current project times for single new reactors, and then factor in every industrial nation trying to build a massive amount of them at the same time competing for a very limited amount of people who know how to do that.

  • Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    5 months ago

    Guys, hear me out. We take a gigantic carbon capture machine, and just pump as much electricity into it AS WE CAN. Because of the incredible energy consumption, we’ll be using the wood from the amazon rainforest as fuel, BUT IT’S OKAY because we’re just capturing that carbon. Oh also, governments gonna have to pay, it’s a social project after all.

  • FreeBeard@slrpnk.net
    1·
    5 months ago

    Photocatalytic splitting of CO2 on liquid Metal could one day be really really effective and it doesn’t need an additional energy source.

    Currently it’s just play pretend.