——What problem does “carbon capture” fix?-—
I will argue that there is money involved involving carbon credits. Piping carbon down a rat hole probably creates carbon credits that some how get converted into real money.
But, I don’t know for sure and certainly don’t understand the complexity of the scam
You need to know the present 440 PPM of dissolved CO2 in the atmosphere is not a crises, in fact it is almost a climatic nadir. When CO2 rises animals get bigger, plants flourish and life abounds. We are lucky it is not going the other way.
Study up on IRS document 45Q. The latest in carbon capture financial bounty.
Then consider a couple of companies attempting to build a high pressure carbon capture pipelines in five mid-Western States using immanent domain as a means of obtaining the land needed for the pipeline.
The producers of corn ethanol and farmers growing the corn are promised insane profit from the sceme which in reality is more green chit brought to you by your own damn government.
In addition, so called sustainable aviation fuel is also a large part of the effort (scam).