cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/3853502
To be clear: carbon capture like this is a tiny and expensive part of what needs doing over the next few years
It's getting a lot of support and publicity in large part because it's backed by the oil industry, which is trying to create social permission for continued extraction and burning on a much larger scale than the removal.
How much carbon is generated by the equipment pulling carbon from the air?
They're kind of quiet about that, though it's probably about 30% to 50% of what they're removing.
Did you mean to say 30-50x of what they're removing?
No. It's nowhere near that bad; just a lot cheaper and easier to not burn fossil fuels in the first place in almost all cases.