36 kilotons a year. Only short by 6 sig figs. You’d need over a 100,000 of these to reach net zero. And the cost for each ton removed is “closer to $1,000 a ton than $100 a ton”. Let’s say $500 a ton, which is less than the actual cost. That’s $18 million a year for this one facility, and you’d need >$1.8 trillion annual to run all the facilities for net zero. It would become the largest single industry in the world (passing agriculture at $1.3 trillion annually)
It’s something that needs to be done eventually, but can’t be used to get us to net zero.
So, yeah. Neat, but something for after the transition.
36 kilotons a year. Only short by 6 sig figs. You’d need over a 100,000 of these to reach net zero. And the cost for each ton removed is “closer to $1,000 a ton than $100 a ton”. Let’s say $500 a ton, which is less than the actual cost. That’s $18 million a year for this one facility, and you’d need >$1.8 trillion annual to run all the facilities for net zero. It would become the largest single industry in the world (passing agriculture at $1.3 trillion annually)
It’s something that needs to be done eventually, but can’t be used to get us to net zero.
So, yeah. Neat, but something for after the transition.