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Re:A new carbon capture plant will pull 36k tons of CO2 from... by hidelooktropic on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @07:00PM (#31926771)
> We need to remove something like 3.5 Tt of CO2

In order to what and at what rate? Break even? Each year?

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Re:A new carbon capture plant will pull 36k tons of CO2 from... by gumby on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @08:27PM (#31927393)
As of right now that's roughly the amount of excess in the atmosphere. So if we remove that (and a bunch of other GHGs) and stop emitting we'd roughly be done.

It's not as simple as I state above, but that gives you an idea of the size of the problem.

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