Direct Air Carbon Capture & Storage
A waste of time and energy
Author: Fredrik Lundberg
This briefing was published by AirClim.
Direct air capture (DAC) carbon capture and storage (CCS) refers to technologies that use physical and chemical processes to extract carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. It essentially means using giant vacuum cleaners to suck CO2 out of the air. While its proponents increasingly view DAC as an indispensable climate solution, due to its staggering costs and limited scalability, DAC stands no chance of becoming a significant CO2 mitigation option.
As Jonathon Foley, Executive Director of Project Drawdown, puts it: “It’s just so silly. If you just buried dollar bills it would make more sense. This has just given big oil decades of talking points to promote a fake solution so they don’t have to stop polluting today; it’s a huge greenwashing exercise and we are falling for it.”
Read the briefing by AirClim to learn why DAC can be considered a waste of time and energy.
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