Bloomberg Green: Can Carbon Capture Reverse Climate Change?

CO2 levels are 50% higher than they were before the industrial revolution -- but what if there's a way to reverse that trend? In this edition of Bloomberg Green, we deep dive into carbon capture, utilization and storage. We speak to the CEOs of four innovative start-ups sucking CO2 out of the air and turning it into everything from aviation fuel to vodka.
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[kentowe]

Carbon capture is taking place at global scale..about 40 million tons annually. . But that is not the huge amounts required to affect the Earth's climate. The IEA has estimated that 7, 600 million tons of CO2 would be needed by 2050. That amount is not even one part-per-million. The climate wouldn't even miss it. You can forget about that idea.

[PA-eofs]

Vaclav Smil points out that carbon capture would require a industry 10X the size of the oil and gas industry, plus who’s dealing with the leaks and storage? It will be one of the technologies in the portfolio but not the solution. But it makes for a neat headline. More accurate headline “Can Carbon Capture be one of the technologies in a portfolio of technologies to help combat climate change”.

[aarononeal]

Bloomberg needs to talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants tress ...

[bob___]

Agricultural reforestation is the best-developed form of carbon capture.

[BB-cfgx]

Believing that CO2 is the global control knob for the climate is like a drunk believing that the lost car keys are under the street lamp because that's where the light is.

[jessenoell]

don't float a question: "can carbon capture reverse climate change" --do the math, the Second Law of Thermodynamics says no.

[soniajulie]

Will CHINA, RUSSIA, etc. going to pay a a carbon tax or just the AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS?

[SurrealKeenan]

Isn't this like using a hydro electric damn to pump water to the top of the dam? We burn fossil fuels for electricty and then we use that energy to catch carbon