I didn’t read the article but I did scan it and I saw this…
Oil and gas companies lobbied for the direct air capture money to be included in the law, arguing that the world could continue to burn fossil fuels if it had a way to clean up their planet-warming pollution.
That’s only helpful after you stop burning fossil fuels, you absolute dipshits. It’s hardly a thing that exists at all, but even if we did manage to invent it it would take more energy to take a ton of carbon out of the air than is produced by burning fossil fuels that produce that ton of carbon. If you’re still using fossil fuels for energy, direct capture just makes things worse
By some of the experimental prototypes, it’s something like 2/3 of the CO2 absorption is just the power to run it and the remaining third is removing extant CO2. People here are overly skeptical about the capabilities as a reaction to liberal media’s over enthusiasm, which prevents finding the real dunks: