Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)

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CDR is removal of CO2 from the atmosphere - an essential basket of technologies for achieving UN IPCC best outcomes to mitigate climate change. This is a community for discussing advances and issues of CDR.

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CO₂ shortage: why can't we just pull carbon dioxide out of the air? (theconversation.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It's also important to understand practically all of the oil is from a time before anything was eating trees. Hundreds of millions of years of solar energy are stored in the earth and we've been digging it up and burning millions of years worth in about 200

Here's a great video that I found very helpful to understand what Earth's carbon cycle is like and why we need to quick ducking around because we're just now at the very beginning of the find out stage.

https://youtu.be/uxTO2w0fbB4?si=mlLJ26tsIW8WRaTb