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RaffiaWorkBase t1_j57d72d wrote

Reply to comment by 94746382926 in Carbon capture nets 2 billion tonnes of CO2 each year — but it's not enough. As well as cutting emissions, governments need to ramp up investment in carbon dioxide removal technologies to hit climate goals. by filosoful

>When they die all that carbon gets released back into the atmosphere

This is not true.

>Trees can buy some time but they're not a permanent solution unfortunately.

This is absolutely true of CCS technologies.

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civilrunner t1_j58lc0z wrote

We literally just have to bury it and refill the oil wells and then cap them. We can do that with anything that grabs carbon from the atmosphere whether it be trees or direct air capture technology.

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94746382926 t1_j599shx wrote

Yeah I forgot you could bury them or use them in construction. My bad.

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Ralph_Baric_PhD t1_j58yhuq wrote

Empty wells should be used as bioreactors for new methane production, filled with human landfill waste of any kind including plastics all shredded and a starter culture added. Apply temperature and pressure. Not so long later you have feed stocks to remake all that previously fixed carbon.

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