Key 'step forward' in cutting cost of removing CO2 from air

[JacksinPA]

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44396781

A Canadian company, backed by Bill Gates, says it has reached an important threshold in developing technology that can remove CO2 from the air.

Carbon Engineering has published a peer-reviewed study showing that they can capture carbon for under $100 a tonne.

This would be a major advance on the current price of around $600 per tonne.

The company says their immediate goal is to produce synthetic liquid fuels made from carbon and renewable energy.
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There are skeptics regarding this development.

'Set up in 2009 with funding from Microsoft's Bill Gates and Canada oil sands financier Norman Murray Edwards, their pilot plant has been running since 2015, capturing about one tonne of CO2 per day.'

 

[PirateMk1]

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44396781

A Canadian company, backed by Bill Gates, says it has reached an important threshold in developing technology that can remove CO2 from the air.

Carbon Engineering has published a peer-reviewed study showing that they can capture carbon for under $100 a tonne.

This would be a major advance on the current price of around $600 per tonne.

The company says their immediate goal is to produce synthetic liquid fuels made from carbon and renewable energy.
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There are skeptics regarding this development.

'Set up in 2009 with funding from Microsoft's Bill Gates and Canada oil sands financier Norman Murray Edwards, their pilot plant has been running since 2015, capturing about one tonne of CO2 per day.'

I have a question to the idiots trying to take carbon dioxide out of the air. Where exactly do we get our oxygen from?? Considering that plants not only use CO2 but like it in far heavier doses than can currently be obtained how do we even have a problem especially considering that CO2 is a fraction of a percent of the gas mix we breath.

 

[Carjosse]

I have a question to the idiots trying to take carbon dioxide out of the air. Where exactly do we get our oxygen from?? Considering that plants not only use CO2 but like it in far heavier doses than can currently be obtained how do we even have a problem especially considering that CO2 is a fraction of a percent of the gas mix we breath.

Have you ever heard of climate change?

 

[PirateMk1]

Have you ever heard of climate change?

I have been on this planet long enough to have lived though idiots trying to sell global cooling and global warming. Climate changes that's the nature of the beast when living on a dynamic floating space rock. Climate change with man as the primary or major driver? That's snake oil bull****.