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Can't imagine "shutting down completely for just two weeks" would exactly be reasonable, but yeah I wonder if the article had a typo in it. I'm not sure. As of right now, the numbers are still the same in the article.
If the numbers are correct, expending like 5-10% of our energy expenditure for a single year on carbon capture sounds a lot more reasonable than the article suggests. Even if it were half of our yearly energy usage, that sounds pretty reasonable if you draw that out over a few decades.