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.
We’re going to need technologies like this, but these technologies can’t be used as an excuse to keep polluting.
Better than this idea though seems radiant sky cooling.
I don’t think technologies are going to get us out of this mess, except where they transition us off of fossil fuels. literally all of these proposals either a) be net positive on carbon emissions - cf carbon capture or b) would have drastic consequences for life on earth - cf the proposal to spray matter into the atmosphere to dim the incoming sunlight. these proposals are psychotic in the face of what we actually need - to immediately cease usage of fossil fuels.
It does not work. Its a scamm. It costs energy to get the co2 out of the atmosphere it costs even more energy yo turn it into a solid or liquid, about the same amount as you get from burning said solid or liquid. So in the end you pollute more by doing this. Unless you have unlimited nuclear plants.
Technology in the hands of the rich and the states they own will not help us. Even if this stupid scam was a miraculous success, all it would do is embolden industrialists to pollute much, much more aggressively because “it can be fixed anyway”