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norem_greymane t1_iz198a7 wrote

Reply to comment by newphew92 in Products Made With Captured Greenhouse Gas Are Reaching Commercial Scale by Straight_Ad2258

Ultimately, if there was currently real economic incentive to capture CO2, we wouldn't be releasing it in the first place. The capture mechanisms would be installed directly onto the things that produce the CO2 in the first place, like the huge cargo ships and coal plants that make up a significant chunk of all CO2 emissions. This will obviously be a lot more efficient than trying to capture CO2 from open air.

That said, if we can continue to advance this science until it's actually financially preferrable to hold onto your CO2 emissions, we may see an enormous industrial shift towards CO2 capture. So it's definitely a science worth pursuing, in my opinion!

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SpiritOfFire013 t1_iz1sl86 wrote

Maybe some day, but tech like that is a lot further off then commercial carbon capture technologies at scale. But carbon capture technology, when using clean energy to power it, is not bad like the commenter above is think.

Yet the have a valid point of said carbon capture mechanisms are running off of dirty energy sources like coal, oil, or natural gas.

But the whole idea of Carbon Capture tech like that in its initials form, is more about getting to a point of carbon neutrality. Not exactly sucking all of the carbon and greenhouse gasses straight out of the wire like a magic trick. Obviously that’s the eventual plan to an extent lol. But right meow, the point is forcing large companies that pollute with CO2 and other emissions to invest in carbon capture technology or to pay carbon capture facilities for their services, which theoretically, when done properly would effectively make them carbon neutral. If that makes sense.

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