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[โ€“] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair you can use the captured carbon for building or for carbon rivers so its not completely useless. Just way to expensive.

[โ€“] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Problem the first: carbon capture is too expensive

Problem the second: when you do carbon capture you get CO2 gas

I'm starting to like the idea of growing forests, cutting down those forests, cooking the wood to ~~charcoal~~ activated carbon (in solar furnaces perhaps) and storing near pure solid carbon