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Facing brutal climate math, US bets billions on direct air capture
Reuters via MSN ^ | April 18, 2023 | By Susanna Twidale, Valerie Volcovici, Simon Jessop and Peter Henderson

Posted on 04/18/2023 4:00:11 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And, the DAC electric bill.


21 posted on 04/18/2023 4:36:44 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: 9YearLurker

I have a real simple question.

If they build the factories that will capture and permanently store the gas what would happen if say 10, 20, 30 years in the future there was a catastrophic “accident” where ALL the captured gas was released all at once?

I find it hard to accept that ANY man-made gas storage device can be made permanent.


22 posted on 04/18/2023 4:41:16 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: OHPatriot

Stop it. CO2 is not a pollutant. It is harmless. Stop asking quetions about it. Just oppose the madness on it’s own insane merits.


23 posted on 04/18/2023 4:43:15 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: OHPatriot

Harder to believe is that these essential elements of life on the planet need any such “removal”.


24 posted on 04/18/2023 4:44:18 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They have been saying this for decades, why the public doesn’t wise up is bizarre.


25 posted on 04/18/2023 4:44:53 AM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

CONtrolling the climate is like changing your gender. Doesn’t work regardless of how many part you remove or add. Sorry.


26 posted on 04/18/2023 4:46:26 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

total waste of money ... sequestering and storing carbon is insane ... for one thing, the processes to do that simply add as much or more carbon to the atmosphere than they capture and sequester ...


27 posted on 04/18/2023 4:47:42 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: catnipman

It is insane because CO2 is not only harmless it is benficial.


28 posted on 04/18/2023 4:48:42 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va
Thanks for the graph, it's the first one I've been able to understand.

Considering the history of the planet and the apparent continuing decline in the CO2 levels, we should be sounding the alarm that if this trend continues, CO2 will drop to a level that is unable to sustain life.

29 posted on 04/18/2023 4:53:52 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My guitar wants to kill your mama - Zappa)
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To: central_va

” goal of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius.”
We’ve already warmed 1.3 degrees since 1850. In that time the world has increased life expectancy by 40 years. The pandemic shortened LE by 2 years, but forget about that, keep making more viruses and focus on an undetectable change in temperature and give every cent we earn to Klaus Schwab and Al Gore. Does anyone think another .2 degrees is gong to make a difference?


30 posted on 04/18/2023 4:56:24 AM PDT by brookwood (To acheive equity, the percentage of whites in prison must equal the percentage of blacks in prison)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
How much CO2 was emitted by the private aircraft that recently transported all those multi billionaires to Davos a few months ago?

And when will algore,Zuckerberg,Osama Obama and John Friggin Kerry sell their beachfront mansions and move to Colorado?

31 posted on 04/18/2023 4:57:19 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: OttawaFreeper

If they are progressives or members of GenZ; it WILL take four of them.


32 posted on 04/18/2023 5:02:16 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Interesting info, can you provide me a link so I can share with the climate idiots.Thank you.


33 posted on 04/18/2023 5:04:42 AM PDT by New Perspective (As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)
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To: rbg81

Yep go and get a coal pot like the Africans do... Oh, where are the alarmists on the turd world?

All their hooey is the Marxist muslim assault on the rich developed world which they aspire to be a part of.

Worst part is our obamanites who are destroying this nation are on side with the enemies of America.


34 posted on 04/18/2023 5:05:27 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I recently stumbled upon some interesting info. I love Central Park in Manhattan.Whenever I visit NYC I try to visit it. Anyone who's ever been there will have noticed the many strange looking rocky outcrops scattered around. They look like mini mountains.

I recently learned that those "mini mountains" are actually giant rocks that were deposited there by a mile thick glacier that,thousands of years ago,enveloped all of what today is called New York City. That glacier disappeared long,long before the advent of the internal combustion engine,gas stoves,air conditioning,etc.

How could that possibly have happened?

35 posted on 04/18/2023 5:06:32 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: central_va

You are ALL missing my point. I think CO2 capture is STUPID.
If “they” capture all this CO2 because it’s soooooo bad, what happens if suddenly leaks out?

This capture idea is the same as shutting down “safe” pipelines to use rail cars traveling over poorly maintained rails and then pissing and moaning that a derailment causes an environmental disaster. In other words Short Sighted Stupidity on the Left causes REAL Problems for Real People.


36 posted on 04/18/2023 5:15:01 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: central_va; Hot Tabasco; Oldeconomybuyer; OttawaFreeper

Safer Carbon Capture and Storage
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/12/29/safer-carbon-capture-and-storage/

Carbon Capture & Storage: ExxonMobil’s Big Political Play
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/08/carbon-capture-storage-exxonmobils-big-political-play/


37 posted on 04/18/2023 5:19:14 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: alloysteel

“Plant more trees, grow more crops, raise more lawns. The problem solves itself. Become truly “green”!”

Until the volcano offset, or the rocket offset, or the forest fire offset, the tectonic plate venting, the...

It’s cyclical even with the rocket launches. Rockets hardly add to the percentages.


38 posted on 04/18/2023 5:19:53 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
billions of tonnes of carbon will need to be sucked out of the atmosphere annually to reach a goal of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Sound like a whole lotta suckin goin on down here...

39 posted on 04/18/2023 5:21:01 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I gallon of gasoline produces 19.55 pounds of CO2. They want to subsidize carbon capture at 180 dollars a ton.

19.55lbs/2000 lbs x $180 = $1.75 That is the subsidy per gallon of gas. Where will they get this money? The answer is simple. It will be a Federal Gasoline Tax.

They want to kill the internal combustion engine, except for themselves. They want us to live in high density housing like the old Soviet Union and take public transportation. We will live in our little box of an apartment and do as “Big Brother” instructs us.

George Orwell was right.


40 posted on 04/18/2023 5:26:44 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-roughneck-oil field trash- drilling fluid tech-geologist-pilot- pharmacist)
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