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Re:Is carbon capture a viable solution? by ip26 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @02:18PM (#25201975)
Hopefully somewhere along the line we figure out that it's cheaper to help Bangladesh pay for carbon neutral development than to sequester their carbon for them.

I wonder if a private investor could swoop in on a coal plant project, bankroll an upgrade to something better, and sell offsets on the carbon market in California?

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Re:Is carbon capture a viable solution? by Qwertious on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @09:32PM (#25205381)
Carbon offsets have been repeatedly shot down in the past - both as an accounting sleight of hand (for instance, what if it bankrolls a solar plant that was going to be built anyway?), and as a decadent excuse to not actually change anything, equivalent to medieval christians buying Indulgences.
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Re:Is carbon capture a viable solution? by trianglem on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @01:26AM (#25206471)
You’re referring to old timey offsets. A lot of direct carbon capture and sequestration are now available as offsets.
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Re:Is carbon capture a viable solution? by trianglem on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @02:24PM (#25202032)
That makes a lot of sense.
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