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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science@mander.xyzEnglish · 9 months ago

Global carbon capture and storage potential way overblown, study finds

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Global carbon capture and storage potential way overblown, study finds

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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science@mander.xyzEnglish · 9 months ago
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A new study finds that the potential for carbon capture and storage is much more limited, by a factor of five or six, than the capacity projected by the United Nations to fight climate change. The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates a maximum of 30 gigatons of carbon dioxide can be trapped underground […]
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  • sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net
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    Turns out trying to capture a gas from the air at the scale of gigatonnes is really really hard.

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      What other material do humans process in the scale of Gt anyway?

      • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Co2

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          9 months ago

          Never heard of /s

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    In all reality it’s going to take genetically engineered humans that breathe CO2 instead of Oxygen and dogs that eat methane cause corporations don’t give a shit

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