Right here’s an article on a enterprise backed by Invoice Gates to take away CO2 from the ambiance.
I’ve all the time been skeptical of these kinds of enterprises, on the premise of sheer arithmetic. On this case, the expertise entails accumulating and baking biomass into rectangular solids the dimensions of shoeboxes, masking them with an impenetrable coating to forestall decay, burying them in deep holes, and monitoring them indefinitely.
In 2025, the corporate predicts it’s going to seize 15,000 metric tons of CO2, which is 1 out of two.5 million of the world’s annual CO2 emissions.
If I have been answerable for all this, I might merely develop bushes, and switch the wooden into constructing merchandise designed to final at the very least 100 years. I feel it’s an inexpensive assumption that the subsequent century will convey us to a spot the place now we have vastly totally different points in limiting/eradicating CO2 emissions.
