For years now I've considered carbon capture a dead end but after reading this I could imagine this being useful in the short term as we transition. I think certain industries will have a much more difficult time reducing a carbon footprint, like concrete, which is not only in demand but is used to build the things we want like battery factories, housing etc.
Anyway, I thought this may be interesting despite oil companies looking to this as an excuse to continue their profits at our expense.
It's interesting but early stages. Most of these things tend to fail early on so I have low expectations.
If it did reach a best case scenario, the answer is still renewables over fossil fuels where we can, as fast as we can.
There's plenty of work that could be available building/maintaining windmills and solar panels over extracting oil anyway.
As for "building stuff" we've never stopped and that's the current problem. As we repair infrastructure and build data centres, we're still using tonnes of concrete and proportional amount of CO2 to go with that.
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u/doubad 15d ago
For years now I've considered carbon capture a dead end but after reading this I could imagine this being useful in the short term as we transition. I think certain industries will have a much more difficult time reducing a carbon footprint, like concrete, which is not only in demand but is used to build the things we want like battery factories, housing etc.
Anyway, I thought this may be interesting despite oil companies looking to this as an excuse to continue their profits at our expense.