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As a tool to address rising greenhouse gas emissions, carbon capture chemically removes carbon dioxide from the air, to store or recycle into products. The company behind a new plant to be opened this summer claims the facility will remove 500,000 tons of CO2 a year. But is this form of carbon capture – underwritten by the fossil fuel industry – an effective means to address climate change? Correspondent David Pogue looks at the technology behind this initiative, and the controversy it has raised.
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They are trying to do this in my small town..we must stop this!!!
No. Next question from the oil industry?
1:20 STUPID! Let’s use energy to capture the CO2 and then just release it back in the atmosphere through other energy consuming activities. This “solution” is a scam
Do the math. The most efficacious method of carbon capture is to put used plastics into a landfill.
Is this guy scared to ask tough questioins or just not equipped?
I visited Squamish in 1973. It was lush and covered in lovely majestic trees. This looks like literal hell.😢 killed all those trees for what????
You could just plant a trillion trees.
It will take more than technology to capture carbon. Science has confirmed that incorporating livestock onto the land, rotating them with management intensive grazing and giving plants sufficient recovery time before they’re grazed again sequesters atmospheric carbon into the soil.
CO2 is food for plants and the best way to capture it is by planting trees.
You can take a lot of carbon from the air if you can remove the carbon from bio-methane and use the resulting hydrogen or manufactured ammonia in fuel cells or engines. The bio-methane would have to be decomposed using green electricity to ensure the highest decarbonization of the air via a biological intermediary step.
Not so good with the math, but, just checking those numbers again, 6.5 million tonnes a day, 0.5 million tonnes a year.
I think the counter point understated the, "duh," on this one.
A Two Billion Dollar investment in Oceanic Aeration could rebuild Polar Ice and begin to cool the Planet. It's organic, doesn't require any risks other than letting well equipped ships drift in regions where the air is about thirty degrees cooler than the sea surface. Aeration provides a huge benefit to Marine life; go to a major Aquarium and ask if they use it for the health of their captive species. Aeration bypasses the thermal barrier that exists between the air and water, often in the form of fog.
For $2 Billion, 90,000 individual Aeration Units could be placed around the world with each unit cooling 500 gallons of water per minute by up to 15 degrees. Think of it as harvesting the cold that is always lingering near the poles and travels as far south as Florida and as far north as Brisbane every winter. As one who has studied the factors behind Earth's climate since 1979, I see no other cost-effective option and it should have begun years ago. Everybody seems to want to spend billions to monitor the decline of our civilization rather than make an honest effort to preserve it; that's not a sign of intelligent life.
Doesn’t really matter in this country anymore ❓🥴
Plant TREES. While also mining the ocean? That is eco terrorism. And the carbon footprint to build the necessary plants for this operation is mindless
0:27 no its not cause and effect. Those fires have been there for ever
People still believe in human climate change? Libs burning Teslas show they don’t even care
TESLA Boycott is working. Going to Mars is definitely NOT a priority.
All the while stealing people's property for the pipe lines to bury it underground many miles away.
Remember, fossil fuels will always be needed to produce the so called green energy systems.
Why does CBS not try it first to power their Stations, CBS think about the fossil fuels you take to broad cast
The climate change agenda is a hoax perpetuated by big liberals. The redistribution of income is the priority.
just deglobalize more, keep vital supply chains operating domestically with an international buffer… less shipping stuff around, less reliance on oil which is a finite resource and will one day be gone
Like the Lorax said where are the trees, removing trees to build new homes and enlarging farms
How about just informing people of all the little ways to conserve or use LESS energy??? All the servers – who are they serving? The advertising lights let on all night, do we read them?
Can we please make 'Man made' climate change belief a criminal offence.
Torrential rains in EU from COLD FRONTS, snow in Saudi, North Africa, N Mexico, frozen hail and record COLD from Canada to Bolivia, this is proof Magic CO2! is a tax ruse by Jobs for Life with Pensions.
No person would choose to go back to the 16th century Dark Ages, of no personal property and no personal rights, paying tithes to a distant King, otherwise being burned at the stake for a blasphemer, a 'climate denier'. Nobody would choose that future. That's being chosen for us.
No, this is a stupid idea. Carbon credit funny money.
thanks for helping to explain this issue.
David Pogue: I get that it is difficult to ask hard questions and preserve your relationships, BUT – you needed to ask Lori Guetre how much electricity & total energy Stratos will consume. Recently, they claimed that it was "proprietary" information. They are getting a LOT of government funding. They need to be transparent.
Its not decarbonize as fast as possible !!
Exxon Mobil has spiked a proposal to store captured carbon in an old offshore gas field in the Gippsland basin off the coast of Victoria, but isn’t explaining why it’s killed the three-year old idea.
So is the Stanford Professor against building out more clean energy? I have a hard time seeing a vision that isn't just contrarian here.