News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:$100M xPrize for Carbon Removal by sbierwagen on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @03:17PM (#27825023)
In 2016, the US burned 728 million tons of coal: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/how-coal-works

That's one country, for one year. The world has been burning coal for more than a century. To get back to preindustrial CO2 levels, all that coal needs to be unburned and buried again. That's the scale of the problem.

There are no comments on this comment yet.