A physicist runs the math on direct air capture and warns: This tech won't save us from climate catastrophe.
  • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Trees are great for other reasons, but they grow far too slow to capture significant carbon. The fastest natural carbon sinks are algae.

    • NegativeInf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      I say, we damn up all of the arctic circle, propagate Azolla there, kill it off and sink it every season. Nature did it once! We can do it again!