Sunday, December 22, 2024

Removing Carbon from the Sky Could Be the Next Climate Gold Rush

Investors are betting that they can make a dent in global warming, and healthy profits, with companies that alter the atmosphere.

Posted by retort at 11:49 AM | 4 COMMENTS | permalink

More

Removing Carbon From the Sky Could Be the Next Climate Gold Rush[image or embed]

-- Will Yeates (@wyeates.bsky.social) December 22, 2024 at 8:39 AM

Comments

OK, my first question ...

What is the relative cost of this approach vs just trying to reduce our carbon footprint?

Is this more of a "attacking the symptom" rather than a "solving the cause" issue?

Stated differently, corporations make profits be spewing carbon into the our air. And now we have new corporations and the wealthy proposing profitable businesses to remove that carbon from the air.

Would not it just be better to solve the problem of our carbon footprint?


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-22 10:49 PM

Would not it just be better to solve the problem of our carbon footprint?

#1 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

Sure would!

But that is not happening ... not while we are an oil /fossil fuel based economy. Not while republicans are in power.

When we perfect unlimited fusion power we will be able do that.

Most experts agree that we're unlikely to be able to generate large-scale energy from nuclear fusion before around 2050. And that's being optimistic. You might want to add as many years as republicans hold power. Because they will not be making this a priority like drill baby drill is.

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-23 02:16 PM

I wonder why you people cant see that the U.S. is one of the cleanest countries out there? Why are you after China, Pakistan, India or Singapore, you know? A country who is really polluting the planet?

Oh, that's right, they would tell you to go --- yourselves.

Leave the U.S. alone, we are barely polluting anything. That's why you cant get anywhere and you get so much push back.

#3 | Posted by boaz at 2024-12-23 04:03 PM

Leave the U.S. alone, we are barely polluting anything. That's why you cant get anywhere and you get so much push back.

Posted by boaz at 2024-12-23 04:03 PM | Reply

Your ignorance is showing Boaz.

#4 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-12-23 04:11 PM

Drudge Retort Headlines

Hegseth's Proposed Pentagon Cuts, Firing of Generals (59 comments)

Target Sued by Florida for Defrauding Shareholders About DEI (47 comments)

Musk Emails Demand to Entire Federal Workforce (35 comments)

Economist: Musk is About to Cause a 'Deep, Deep Recession' (33 comments)

Dow Plunges over 700 Points as Inflation and Tariff Fears Mount (22 comments)

Military Families Rocked By Trump's Government Cuts (20 comments)

Power-to-the-States 'King' Wants to End NYC Congestion Pricing (19 comments)

GOP Rep Faces Furious Locals in Town Hall DOGE Mega Backlash (16 comments)

Trump's Presidency Is a Mess of Contradictions (15 comments)

Brutal New Polls Trump and Musk Sinking (15 comments)