As corporate interest in ocean carbon removal grows, researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are testing the safety and effectiveness of one such technique in the Gulf of Maine.
It sounds good, and long-term it’s a nice tool to have, but it’s nowhere near fast or effective enough to counter even a fraction of actual emissions. This is a “we’re basically already at net zero and now we can start trying to recover” tool. Not a “Yay, we can keep burning!” tool.
I think you missed the part where extracting CO2 costs huge amounts of energy, and converting it back to oxygen to capture pure carbon costs the exact same amount of energy as you got when you burned it in the same place. Add losses due to heat etc, and basically if you want to dial back the clock for CO2 levels, and given that no other extra CO2 is being emitted anymore, you’d need to spend about twice the energy the world generated. Want to dial CO2 back how it was 10 years ago? That’ll cost you about twice amount of energy that the world has spent over the past ten years by burning fossil fuels.
And that is on top of the normal world consumption of energy, and that is also assuming that all CO2 emissions have stopped. That is also ignoring energy costs for storing the carbon as well
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Please let’s do that, I like the sounds of that.
It sounds good, and long-term it’s a nice tool to have, but it’s nowhere near fast or effective enough to counter even a fraction of actual emissions. This is a “we’re basically already at net zero and now we can start trying to recover” tool. Not a “Yay, we can keep burning!” tool.
I agree with you. Let’s do all the measures and then some more. I’m just a bit fed up with doing nothing and then cry.
I think you missed the part where extracting CO2 costs huge amounts of energy, and converting it back to oxygen to capture pure carbon costs the exact same amount of energy as you got when you burned it in the same place. Add losses due to heat etc, and basically if you want to dial back the clock for CO2 levels, and given that no other extra CO2 is being emitted anymore, you’d need to spend about twice the energy the world generated. Want to dial CO2 back how it was 10 years ago? That’ll cost you about twice amount of energy that the world has spent over the past ten years by burning fossil fuels.
And that is on top of the normal world consumption of energy, and that is also assuming that all CO2 emissions have stopped. That is also ignoring energy costs for storing the carbon as well
So yeah, good luck with that.
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I’m a little confused they are taking CO2 from the ocean? Why would they collect CO2 from the ocean to counter fuke burned?
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