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Re:Researchers reached the bottom of ice sheet at -2670M aft... by S201 on Monday July 31, 2023 @08:22PM (#36950745)
Is there anything left to really "figure out" about carbon capture? The tech works, it's just too expensive. Given a sufficient amount of cheap enough energy it could be scaled up as far as I understand.

As a layperson, it's just one more reason I so wish we'd invest in nuclear. Nuclear powered DAC plants might be the only way to scale it fast enough. Sure, it would still be expensive, but that's much cheaper than not massively reducing CO2 in the atmosphere.

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Re:Researchers reached the bottom of ice sheet at -2670M aft... by BurningFrog on Monday July 31, 2023 @09:50PM (#36951362)
I think it's way, way too expensive now, and it will probably take a few decades to get it down to practically useful cost levels.

Which is why keeping temperature down with SO2 during that time makes sense.

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