• thantik@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I feel like there’s a lot of these carbon-sequestration companies that are selling absolute poppycock and getting billions in funding, and very little actual oversight. They’re doing this song and dance with “carbon credits”, and eventually someone’s going to peek behind the curtain and blow their cover.

    I haven’t seen one carbon-sequestration entity yet, besides those that are focused around planting trees, that have actually shown any real results other than vague handwavey bullshit. Like the ones saying they’re capturing it out of the air and pumping it underground – awfully convenient that nobody can fucking verify that it’s actually happening eh?

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    6 months ago

    lol fuck what a company thinks, what can they prove

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      6 months ago

      It’s definitely billions of tonnes; that’s the scale of yearly CO2 emissions

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      6 months ago

      Most locations aren’t like that; they’re injecting into oil and gas deposits with the risk of subsequent leakage

      Enhanced rock weathering is very cool if it can be made to work at scale. Most examples have issues with needing a lot of energy to mine and pulverize rocks

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        6 months ago

        They are looking at using Tailings storage facilities in mining for this reason

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      • PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de
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        6 months ago

        with the risk of subsequent leakage

        That risk is like telling:" humanity will go down due to a eruption of a super vulcano"

        But i agree carbfix is no solution for global scales.