Lots of people want to see more "hope" and less "doom" about climate change. But a new facility to suck carbon out of the air shows why it's more complicated than that.
Realized carbon storage efficiency is abysmal: typically -25% of estimates, and highly variable, and that’s before you factor in the economics. You don’t get anything tangible from CCS, either.
Trees are sadly inefficient for the scales we need. I’m not saying we should cut down more trees or stop planting them, but it will take much more than that to get us out of the hole we’ve dug ourselves into.
Realized carbon storage efficiency is abysmal: typically -25% of estimates, and highly variable, and that’s before you factor in the economics. You don’t get anything tangible from CCS, either.
Trees are pretty good at carbon capture :)
While this is true, we only tend to plant monocultures.
Very true. A forest is definitely preferable
Trees are sadly inefficient for the scales we need. I’m not saying we should cut down more trees or stop planting them, but it will take much more than that to get us out of the hole we’ve dug ourselves into.
I don’t think there’s a reasonable way out of this hole, but I’d rather be in a world with more forest, so I’ll keep suggesting that.