Pulling carbon

Here is an overview of various schemes to lower the carbon content of our atmosphere. Some of them look better than others.

I have looked at the maths and I do NOT rate the carbon in our atmosphere, even if we torch ALL our deposits, Silent Hill / Centralia style, as an Early Triassic problem. Instead I find opportunity. Carbon-dioxide is good for water desalination, for a start - as is noted in the article. And if we worry about Rising Sea Levels (or if you've read Stone Spring and want the Dogger Bank back) then, by all means, let us mingle this molecule with the water molecule and go wild with organic chemistry. The "Carbon Engineering" facility seems best for that.

In that light, anyone proposing to bury carbon into the Earth should be laughed out of the room. Climeworks needs to give up on that and focus on their CO₂-to-fuel line. I note they also sell "carbon-credit" indulgences.

I smell grift, in a lot of this. Spotify are involved - yes, those guys who #canceled President Donald Trump this weekend.

For more honest suppliers, the technology seems like an excellent fit for our carbon-atmophere planets: Mars and even more so, Venus.