Reminder: Carbon capture at the scale necessary to affect the climate is science fiction
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The only way that carbon ends up in the ground is if we leave it there
Do you really think there's some way to magically undo the process of burning the carbon that's already underground and compressing it back into something that can be stored back where it came from in a manner that doesn't take way more energy and money than we got from burning it in the first place?
@researchfairy we used 60My of all Terran solar energy influx to capture it, about 300Mya, as efficiently as chlorophyll could do it
@researchfairy my pet theory is that we are living through a new Carboniferous period, in which a new material (wood in that era, plastic on ours) has appeared at scale while nothing can decompose it so it just builds up.
I wonder if in a few hundred million years there will be mineable (assuming there is any life form around to care) hydrocarbon deposits in our landfills from decomposed plastics.
