Beyond Insane - Someone Finally Did The Arithmetic On The Absurdity Of Powering Direct Air Capture Of Carbon Dioxide

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3. Many people in the United States are perversely proud of their scientific illiteracy.

Say the word "thermodynamics" and you might as well be speaking the devil's tongue. Those who are selling absurd carbon capture schemes to politicians and the general public are counting on that ignorance.

If we are truly concerned about increasing accumulations of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere we have to quit burning fossil fuels. (If you find yourself stuck in a hole quit digging!)

Then we can start thinking about capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or ocean and converting it to forms that will stay put indefinitely. That will take energy and a lot of it -- more energy than human civilization has already utilized by burning fossil fuels.

In effect we'll be turning atmospheric carbon dioxide back into materials that can be fossilized -- carbon, carbonate minerals, etc..