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Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky is moving from science fiction to reality (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by anzo@programming.dev to c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world

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Occidental Petroleum is investing in billion-dollar projects to suck carbon dioxide out of the sky. The effort is raising hopes — and eyebrows

By Daniel Estrin, Camila Domonoske

3-Minute Listen / Transcript available

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/08/1198373683/sucking-carbon-dioxide-out-of-the-sky-is-moving-from-science-fiction-to-reality

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[–] Foggyfroggy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about make the polluting company purchase this and plop it on top of their emissions tube?

The rules will only say “no carbon emission”, and however a company wants to make that happen is up to them.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

This is the way I would want to see it happen. If pollution tax is high enough, it will incentivize companies to act more reasonably. Hopefully coal power plants will shut down permanently while blast furnaces will be modified to meet the new requirements. Processing all of that CO2 won’t be cheap, but steel production has to continue so the company doesn’t really have that many options. The government could also support the transition so that production won’t disappear into other countries.