Climeworks has just opened the world’s largest direct carbon capture plant. It can suck around 36,000 tons of CO2 from the air each year, burying it underground.
It’s not even a drop in the bucket. A drop maybe contains 0.1 ml, a bucket contains 10l, so that’s 0.001%. This is way less of the needed volume of capture, 0.000225%.
So according to statista in 2023 global emissions were 37.5 billions of tons, and exponentially growing since 1944.
In the article they say they can remove 36,000 tons of CO2 and the goal is
That’s a drop in the bucket alright. Sustainability and capitalism (with its embedded exponential growth) cannot coexist.
It’s not even a drop in the bucket. A drop maybe contains 0.1 ml, a bucket contains 10l, so that’s 0.001%. This is way less of the needed volume of capture, 0.000225%.