Re:What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil?
by Dumblydorr on Sunday July 26, 2020 @08:52AM
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Once we ramp emissions way down, then we have to pull out the CO2 we've already emitted. It's not viable now, but EVs weren't viable 20 years ago. Once Europe and Stripe and California and all the early movers spend the first few billions, it will become much cheaper and more effective.
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Re:What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil?
by gonzo41 on Sunday July 26, 2020 @06:42PM
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It's actually a hard problem.
Think of CO2 like ping pong balls.
If you have a cube of balls 100 * 100 * 100 you've got a million balls. Then mark 400 random balls. Then lets them all fall to the floor. Find the marked balls.
That's what sifting though 400 parts per million looks like and c02 molecules are smaller than ping pong balls.