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The Carbon Capture Fantasy

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Using experimental technology to pull gigatons of carbon out of the air and bury it deep beneath the Earth sounds like a bad sci-fi plot point. If things don’t change soon, it also might be one of our only options.


Guest: Clive Thompson, journalist and author of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World


Host: Lizzie O’Leary


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1:01.3

I'm going to be totally honest. I've been feeling pretty down about climate change lately.

1:10.0

It kind of felt like the Glasgow summit fizzled. There was the news that the key ice shelf

1:16.0

in Antarctica is melting faster than expected. Then there were the awful tornadoes over the

1:21.4

weekend. So when I read Clive Thompson's story about a potential solution to climate change,

1:28.6

or at least some technology that might be helpful, I was immediately hooked. Clive story,

1:34.9

which ran in Mother Jones, is about something called direct-air carbon capture or DAC.

1:41.4

Direct-air carbon capture is basically the art and science of extracting CO2 from the air.

1:48.5

Think of a giant vacuum, but for carbon. You create a machine that uses a chemical process

1:56.7

to bind CO2 and turn it into something that you can then store somewhere. Maybe a shove it

2:04.5

really deep in the ground. So it's gone. Maybe you turn it into something else that you can use.

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