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What Next TBD: The Carbon Capture Fantasy

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4.66K 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.1

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

1:15.9

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

1:21.3

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

1:27.7

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

1:34.3

story, which ran in Mother Jones, is about something called Direct Air Carbon Capture, or

1:40.1

DAC.

1:41.8

Direct Air Carbon Capture is basically the art and science of extracting CO2 from the

1:48.3

air. Think of a giant vacuum, but for carbon.

1:52.9

You create a machine that uses a chemical process to bind CO2 and turn it into something

2:01.9

that you can then store somewhere. Maybe a shove it really deep in the ground. So it's

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