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A comment on $100M xPrize for Carbon Removal. Parent comment

Re:$100M xPrize for Carbon Removal by phire on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @12:28AM (#27829737)
Hang on. That sounds carbon-neutral at best.

Great for replacing fossil fuels, but not a carbon sequestration technique.

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Re:$100M xPrize for Carbon Removal by bgroat on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @08:29AM (#27832311)
You can bury the char or plow it into fields as a soil ameliorant.

Or if you wanted you could literally just bury it. Then it becomes a coal plant in reverse

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