Can Carbon Capture Save Our Planet?

Either you believe man-made climate change is a nightmarish existential threat to civilization. Whichever it is, let’s at least agree mankind is dumping too much carbon into the atmosphere.

Not convinced? Here are some numbers. Prior to the industrial revolution, the earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration was chilling somewhere around 280 parts per million. If we want to keep our planet habitable, respectable climatologists all agree, we need to keep that number below 350 parts per million, tops.

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[digitalsuperman]

plants and trees are the most effective way to capture carbon.

[eugenefleming]

Only way to decrease carbon is to build more nuclear power plants

[romuloramosdias]

The cheapest way to capture carbon is by planting and chopping trees. they incorporate CO2 from the atmosphere into their own physical structure.

[vlflh]

You do know nuclear power plants don't produce CO2 right? Only water vapor. You show stock footage of nuclear power plants along side oil, like they were equally as bad for CO2 emissions

[doubleatheman]

Please don't use stock footage of nuclear cooling towers to represent carbon emissions, it's just factually wrong and irresponsible.

[ThinkHuman]

Absolutely brilliant channel! And respect for the ethic and real way of presenting ideas about the future!

[sergioarmani]

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combines them in creative ways.

[jackgaisano]

Planting trees is cheaper n better and produces oxygen too

[bhutsering]

Why don’t we get inspiration from trees and invent a Artificial Tree that can transform CO2 to O2?? In our past we have taken a lot of inspiration from nature like For planes we got inspiration from birds…

[wolfgangrenner]

Pumping CO2 in old gas and oil fields may be the only technique which really makes sense. Utilising CO2 in any way needs more energy than was yieldet when C as burned to CO2. So avoiding CO2 production with CCS seams the only reallistic approach to reduce CO2 disposal in to the atmosphere.

[HumanAction]

I find it interesting that they use stock video of nuclear power plants to show emission, except that emission is not carbon dioxide, and is not harming the environment. Honesty is really the best policy.

[qwebly]

Nuclear Fusion would be perfect right about now

[dertythegrower]

I VERY MUCH appreciate this topic reports.
Please make more on this topic and any future innovations on this trend.
We have to learn the negative study and impact of this as well, as everything has pro and cons.
Again, thank you for this and your other channels. Solid and proper reports, I truly appreciate it.

[joshalexander]

What an aggressive way to start a video😂😂

[ladyselenafelicitywhite]

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[Jim_]

They should reuse hydroelectric plants to power stations like these, while moving the grid towards Nuclear energy. Also, to those in the comments section berating carbon capture technology, I would point out that no amount of trees is going to capture all the carbon we burned from deposits in which it was stored safely for millennia. One plant over a short period of time won’t fix the problem, but it’s a start.

[matthewstromberg]

"Or you're about to write something dim in the comments."

I laughed so hard I spit out my coffee.

[nitrox]

‘…to remain an underground technology.’ I see what you did there ;)

[tedrees]

right now Climeworks charges about $10 per gallon of gasoline emissions. It is much more expensive than reducing emissions by solar PV, which pays for itself when installed on your rooftop.

[Changelife]

I believe carbon capture and storage is a futuristic option but it has its own geographical limits but where it can be done it will prove great .As well as some new types of algae have been discovered which can capture 35 times more carbon