Climeworks lays the foundation to scale up carbon dioxide removal significantly

Re:Climeworks lays the foundation to scale up carbon dioxide... by henearkr on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @03:45AM (#24406106)

There are surely others, but the ones coming to my mind right now:

- Agriculture: lots of CO2 are produced on-site under greenhouses by burning gas, because it speeds up the growing of crops.

- Sparkling drinks industry.

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Re:Climeworks lays the foundation to scale up carbon dioxide... by jbu on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:18AM (#24406643)

But the whole point is to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. These just put it back in again.

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Re:Climeworks lays the foundation to scale up carbon dioxide... by henearkr on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @06:06AM (#24406904)

Yes you're right. One could argue though that those usages would avoid dirty sources of CO2.

But I agree that "avoiding to output more CO2" is not a replacement for "removing CO2", and this is very important indeed. It's just an additional war front, not a replacement.

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Re:Climeworks lays the foundation to scale up carbon dioxide... by TheSpiceIsLife on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @06:30AM (#24407025)

A counter top Sodastream that pulled CO2 out of the air would be novel!.

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Re:Climeworks lays the foundation to scale up carbon dioxide... by henearkr on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @06:54AM (#24407167)

Each burp would feel guilty though lol ^^;

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Re:Climeworks lays the foundation to scale up carbon dioxide... by travisporter on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @01:43PM (#24410742)

https://what-if.xkcd.com/88/

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Re:Climeworks lays the foundation to scale up carbon dioxide... by TheSpiceIsLife on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @10:09PM (#24416056)

Thank you so much for this!

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