A New US Plant Will Use Captured CO2 to Make Millions of Gallons of Jet Fuel::Replacing half of a plane’s regular fuel with CO2-derived fuel can result in 90 percent fewer lifecycle emissions.

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      1 year ago

      You mean carbon credits right? This sounds like legit tech. Do you have info on why it’s flawed? I’d love to read up on it.

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        1 year ago

        There are different ways to do it, some decent, some bullshit. And it’s only useful if it’s powered by renewable energy like wind/solar. But it’s largely unregulated, so a lot of corps grossly overestimate the amount of carbon they’re capturing. Or just flat out lie.

        The main problem is that it’s presented as some sort of big solution, when it’s more like putting a SpongeBob band-aid on a gunshot wound. Corps use it to justify continuing to fuck the atmosphere with things like…jet fuel, for example.

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          Agree mostly. This is an important technology and realistically in the capitalist hellscape we live in, carbon capture is going to need to be part of it. But yes this has the potential problem of letting us ignore the problem because we can just pull CO2 out of the air.

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            Right, the solution is to DRASTICALLY reduce our carbon output AND ALSO do carbon capture stuff. But without the former, the latter isn’t nearly enough to do anything significant. We’re currently producing A LOT more carbon than we could ever capture, even with optimistic estimates. Reduction is the most important action here.