[HN Gopher] US takes $1.2B gamble on carbon-sucking vacuums
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       US takes $1.2B gamble on carbon-sucking vacuums
        
       Author : alex_young
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2023-08-12 19:00 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | WallyFunk wrote:
       | Defund the weather engineering programs and re-allocate that
       | money into this. It's a no-brainer.
        
       | sillywalk wrote:
       | TL;DR: 2 DAC facilities, one in Louisiana, one in Texas hope to
       | capture ~1million tonnes/year / facility, starting 2025/2026...
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       | The largest currently operating one is Orca in Iceland and it can
       | only do 4k tonnes.
        
         | mrweiner wrote:
         | Also: "The Texas project will be led by the American company
         | Occidental and other partners, including Carbon Engineering. It
         | could be developed to eliminate up to 30 million tons of CO2
         | per year, according to a statement from Occidental."
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         | And if anybody else was wondering:
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         | "In 2021, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions totaled 6,340.2 million
         | metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, or 5,586.0 million
         | metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents after accounting for
         | sequestration from the land sector."
         | 
         | https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-
         | gas....
        
       | cumshitpiss wrote:
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       | egberts1 wrote:
       | Meanwhile literal bleeding-edge greenhouses are pumping CO2 into
       | these buildings.
       | 
       | I smell a profit coming.
        
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