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This is dangerous simply because it embarks down the geoengjneering path which leads to things like Jeff Bezos seeding the ocean with algae blooms or Elon blotting out the sun with umbrellas in orbit

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Tech is causing it Only humanity and our original tech of healing each other's PTSD can save it And I had to go through so much shit to figure that out so y'all better listen

If it really worked the tech could be put on every smokestack and grab the carbon on the way out!! They don’t so I’d say this tech is crap.

Or we could plant some damn trees

A better use of it, especially after the very expensive and inefficient capturing of the CO2, would be to mix it with concrete. It will remain sequestered and make stronger concrete; a material we will likely use for a very long time to come. Or, convert it to hydrocarbons to stop oil exploration.

This is like weight loss...to lose body fat you can work out for 10 hours a day, or just eat less. Eating less is hard to do, but working out that much is impossible

Carbon capture was debunked years ago but the oil companies love to pretend it's viable... its up there with allowing plastics manufacturers to pretend they can recycle their poison, its a lie to keep the machine operating. That's all

Behold the power of der Fuhrer! . 1930's Germany. 2020's America. We thought we were better than them. The facts prove otherwise. SIEG HEIL !!! www.newser.com/story/391680...

Move the syphon to the arses of Exxon, Chevron & Shell CEOs.

The missing context here is why companies are interested in storing carbon in this way. The real interest is not reducing carbon in the atmosphere but instead to increase production from oil wells. Currently, we are paying companies to do this, at a rate of $85/tonne

End cars.

Isn't this how we got petroleum (oil) in the first place?

This is propaganda. The fact is, they're causing climate change.

Sounds like the current situation with oil underground, which is made from trees that pulled carbon out of the air. So the easier/cheaper solution is simply LEAVE IT THERE!

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...continue mining and burning fossil fuels. The entire concept of carbon capture is a scam. It would create an entire industry to purportively correct the problem of excessive atmospheric carbon dioxide. The only reasonable path forward is to increase renewable energy.

One slight problem: the CEOs of the tech companies.

How about charging the pollutors BILLIONS?

Tech advances in 2026: Fuck bro, just bury that shit...🤦‍♂️

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This may not be the dumbest thing I’ve heard of, but it’s up there.

Carbon Capture is being used by Canadian PM Mark Carney to justify pushing thru a dilbit pipeline to the north coast of British Columbia ... one of the most pristine and vulnerable marine environments on the planet. thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

How about reducing emissions...? It is appalling how our current capitalist jungle prefers to invest in anything that allows it to continue to pollute even more. We are doomed if we don't destroy the system that is going to destroy us...! 😒

Maybe because capturing the 38 billion tons of CO2 we emit every year alone would need more than 3 times the energy the whole of humanity consums every year? Just a wild guess...

We obviously need some new leaders. I have yet to hear anyone say why they need all this AI. "Because we want it" is a child's response. Letting the crowd that cannot get a date without an assist, redesign society is not sane.

The Mayans had a way that captured carbon and stored it long term in soil. Low tech (big oil won't like it because it's not burning fossil fuel and capturing the waste product, it's probably limited interest to big industry) and also beneficial to poor soil. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_p...

Have you read the damn post? Irony is beyond you?

Well duuuh! How are we going to build a vaccuum thingie that big? S/

The most practical idea is switching to a concrete formula that absorbs CO2 instead of releasing it. Unfortunately the tech just isn't really ready for full-scale use right now.

bio fuel you haven't permanently captured the carbon, but at least you're not adding to it by burning fuels that have locked up carbon from millions of years ago. All very small ball, as I said, but some of these things would be fairly easy to do and don't require fancy tech to implement.

of course, but that's not really the point here, is it? It's an argument that serves the purpose of distracting us into believing we can manage it with tech, which fosters complacency and perpetuates the status quo.

It's not meant to work, it's just another idea to syphon money whilst killing the planet.

I propose, we devise a carbon-flocculent, I have no idea how that would work, but it sounds like a cool idea.

Or we could rebuild the natural ecosystems, reestablish the long grass prairies and eat trail grown animals instead of dependence on CAFOs. For instance.

Yes but it is the only thing we know works.

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The answer seems pretty simple to me as a financial planner. We have to make polluting very expensive, so that business plans that center on heavy pollution won't even work out on paper, much less get real funding to become actionable. #CarbonTax

I am not even going to entertain this. The anti-science of the regime has gotten to the human ruination stage and I just can't with them anymore.

Wouldn't it be much easier to produce less CO2, promote natural CO2 converters (plants containing chlorophyll), and finally, finally have a clear plan for addressing this issue?

Produce less. Much less. Problem solved.

while destroying policies that have worked while denigrating, even destroying, those who are doing the work while forgetting that tech is dependent on smart, skilled, scientists, and has no actual intelligence

AI sucks, and no it's not AI to anybody's rescue.

Think of all earthquakes caused in Oklahoma caused by fracking. Will this do the same.

Better yet - on so many levels - we reign in big agriculture and turn dirt in to soil ..... carboncowboys.org

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That is the principle behind regenerative farming. As an added bonus, it heals the ground, deposits large amounts of carbon and produces nutritionally dense food. We don’t need more tech, we need more nature.

What do you mean theres no way it could work? Just bury a fuck ton of trees like they're nuclear waste then carbon locked away ez

This has been known for over a decade…

this documentary shows why and how exactly this wouldn't work.

The sole purpose of CCS schemes is greenwashing to excuse continuing to burn the fossil fuels that are causing climate change and generally ruining the biosphere we rely on to survive.

well, I do believe that we have reached that point, that simply planting more trees won't turn the clock back, Earth is fucked already.

This doesn't sound practical at all.

We are in a David versus Goliath battle: open.substack.com/pub/zabethsu...

That’s not going to happen. Only stupidity believes stupid. Who started this stupidity Elon Musk?

Wrong

Those data centers will be a big help. They are so climate friendly.

Leaders with no grasp of science or facts think tech bro bullshit will magically solve the problems but they do not realize that shit is a major factor in making climate change much worse. Plus carbon capture is a JOKE. Pump billions of tons of CO2 into the Earth?? What could go wrong? Foul water.

Spoiler Alert: The Acid Rain makes more caves as fast as you can lay them down

We need a complete solar and wind revolution

I offer as example Biden's crime bill in the 70s. He really thought he was doing a good thing, but it turned out to have bad effects. Folks DO try but sometimes F-up. It's not always an evil plan, sometimes we just get it wrong when we're trying to get it right. Do I like that? No, but it's human.

And what are they going to use for power to capture the carbon? Their idea is an endless circle but eliminating fasil fuel will solve the problem.

Plant trees, grow soil. Plant early, plant often. Is our only actual pathway to salvation.

They know it won’t work.

5/ Imagine the neighborhoods and parks near oil, gas or coal-fired industrial plants. We would need to add equipment to capture the CO2 from each facility, in some cases doubling its land footprint.

Industrial CCS requires numerous new technologies, deployed on a vast scale, along with new "markets" to support that new industry. But we know mature and old growth forests have always worked to capture and store carbon. It's not a silver bullet - there is none. But should not be dismissed.

This is a horrible idea for a million reasons. Maybe we just stop relying on fuels that pump millions of tons of carbon into the air. They know that the deep rocks don't stay deep, right? I can't imagine anything going wrong there.

That is only temporary. When trees decompose they release it all back into the environment.

Using more solar and wind is great, but if we don't also use less fossil fuel, it will have no impact on climate change. Sequestering carbon in wood is also good, as long as you can keep it that way for long enough to make a difference, which isn't happening.

Please be careful in dismissing the role of (mature and old growth) forests in capturing and storing carbon. It's worked now for 100s of millions of years. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wait to capture the carbon that we released that was already buried and pipe it back into our planet where we took it from in the first place?

That sounds like magical thinking. Next they'll say there is a way to stay perpetually young. For the rich of course.

That’s a joke

We need to focus on stopping further pollution before we can attempt to undo climate change!

Do they know there is already carbon under permafrost that gets released when it melts. “Humans are so dumb.” Resident Alien.

did they just watch Spaceballs and see the hoover sucking up the air scene?! and decided to take that for another round of stupid ideas they gonna push down our throuts to make money with it

Yeah we will probably have to do this. We won’t though. We won’t stop polluting and we won’t clean it up either. We won’t do nearly anything, not in America anyway.

DATA CENTERS ARE SPEEDING UP CLIMATE CHANGE- NOW YOU KNOW WHY TRUMP DEMANDED NASA TO DESTROY THE CLIMATE MONITORING SATELLITES- TO HID THE DAMAGE DATA CENTERS ARE CAUSING

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The laws of thermodynamics say that is just plain stupid to do. Just discontinue fossil fuels and encourage natural systems to capture carbon the way they evolved which also has the lowest energy need.

Stop polluting🤷🏽‍♂️💔

STOP EATING ANIMALS FFS!! AGRICULTURE CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING FFS!

Big Oil keeps trying to convince us that future technology will solve our carbon pollution problems -so no need to worry about burning gas. Shell and Exxon ran ads for yrs touting their algae as biofuel research. It was all green-washing -an effort to look as though they cared about the future.

Cancer is a random mutation that can be triggered by the things you mentioned but also by viruses and other things. Sometimes by nothing at all, aside from a transcription error during cell division, which takes place many trillions of times in our bodies during our lives. It only takes one error.

and now: suck, suck, suck!

It's inconceivable on its face due to the laws of thermodynamics. The energy needed to capture the emitted carbon will always be more than or equal to the energy you get from burning the fuel. Carbon capture could be useful when we have more energy from renewables than we need, but not before.

But, I read the biggest problem is methane leaking from the earth and into the environment. It damages the ozone layer, our protection from the sun's rays.

Well, In the first place, it doesn’t sound practical at all.

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This is an idea that’s existed for decades, and proven to fail with every attempt to test its viability

Exactly what it is: a capitalist grift under the guise of technical advancement. Carbon credits were also always a scam.

“yeah dude we can just bury it” I’m having the most BIZARRE deja vu of the discussions on nuclear waste……..

Bloody stupid idea. How about we stop subsidizing big oil?

JFC. GROW TREES AND DON’T BURN THEM.

Just follow their lead, take their advice seriously

Honestly Super Trees seem far more promising.

I need scientists to do this work because they actually understand it. Not fucking techbro dumb idea guys.

Trees and solar panels. That's most of it.

Technology is what is got in these problems, it wil not be able to save us. we reap what we sow