It was designed to capture approximately 4,000 metric tons of carbon from the air per year, which, as one climate scientist, David Ho, put it, is the equivalent of rolling back the clock on just 3 seconds of global emissions.
The article goes on to say that this plant isn’t really intended to have any serious climate impact itself, it’s more a small scale testbed to see how the technology works out in real world conditions and to try to improve and develop it further. So while it might be the world’s largest plant of the type currently, that’s only because nobody has actually built one on a useful scale yet.
indeed. this tech is best thought of as being in the R&D stage. we’re gonna need enough clean energy to power ourselves and it too before it really makes a difference. we can throw excess renewables at it now, though.
The article goes on to say that this plant isn’t really intended to have any serious climate impact itself, it’s more a small scale testbed to see how the technology works out in real world conditions and to try to improve and develop it further. So while it might be the world’s largest plant of the type currently, that’s only because nobody has actually built one on a useful scale yet.
Yep. For CDR to make a meaningful difference we need to both scale it up, and get down to near zero fossil fuel use
indeed. this tech is best thought of as being in the R&D stage. we’re gonna need enough clean energy to power ourselves and it too before it really makes a difference. we can throw excess renewables at it now, though.