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I’ll note that this is a tiny and incredibly expensive part of what needs to happen
They should do it with ocean water instead, as water has 50x’s more carbon than the atmosphere.
Also, fossil fuels companies are going to cite the work funded by the government to continue spewing pollution. Mark my words.
Would that be done through mineralizing the carbon that’s dissolved in the water? I remember hearing about some mineral you could spread in the water that would react with the carbon. I wonder what it would take to produce and spread that at scale with a low re-emission rate.
There is discussion around enhanced rock weathering, but none of it is a proved technology at this point, even at pilot scale, in the way that direct air capture is.
That’s a bingo!