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No, my statement is perfect correct.
Starting carbon capture while there is still fossil fuel power generation is stupid at best. If you do it for research, sure, go nuts. Anything beyond is just making shit worse.
If you have the energy and no where to get it to, that might be the one exception, perhaps but that's it.
If you do carbon capture with energy from CO2 power then you're literally making it worse trying to make it better. If you use non CO2 power you're still doing it wrong because of losses, that power would be better used to avoid others using CO2, you'd be more energy efficient that way.
My point is that there are multiple companies currently doing carbon capture and its just stupid, its another one of those "look at me being smart! Pay me money!" schemes that want government money that would be better spent on replacing CO2 power sources instead.
I'm not saying that at all, I'm saying that it's literally throwing a bucket of water on the floor and then mopping it up. Better not throw the bucket on the floor to begin with
No.
People have been throwing water on the floor for 200 years now, since the start of the industrial revolution, and right now a huge hose is connected to an enormous water tap and that hose dumps all the water straight on the floor.
You want to take a mop on that, I say that the mop is make ng it worse, because I need you to help me get rid of that hose.
Once the hose is gone, please by all means, mop away, we will need it, I fully agree. But while that hose is dumping water, I need you ) that is, the entire world) to first focus on stopping the water flow.
Edit: and just so you understand the severity of the situation: even if we spend 5-70% of the worlds energy budget on mopping 24/7, we'll likely be mopping for the next CENTURIES to get rid of all the extra CO2 we dumped for the past 200 years.