Carbon extraction isn't a viable solution until its whole area is running on green energy. With current technology, at least, running it on a green power source will make less of an impact than hooking that green power source up to replace some fossil fuels.

In other words, don't rely on heal spells until the battle's over. They'll never outpace incoming damage.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also, as far as resource costs go, planting tree is more efficient at capturing carbon then any industrial scrubber. Research should still be done, but anyone trying to sell a scrubber plant is just fishing for VC funds.

[–] pedalmore@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They're also typically embraced by fossil companies, selling both the disease and cure. If they can socialize the costs of sequestration they can keep drilling for profit. We are in desperate need of a carbon tax.

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, I was going to mention trees too, but I wasn't sure of the impact.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You need those heal spells to stop the incoming damage from killing you immediately though.

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you're on the brink of death, yes. If you can take another round, better to take out more enemies first.

But that's not the way our situation works. Until the whole grid is green, carbon scrubbers just give corporations a way to virtue signal without having to make changes to their supply line, and actually do more harm than good. Because the power it takes to run them puts out more carbon than they collect.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

We're on the brink of death right now so I will support people trying to start CO2 sequestration even while coal plants in other countries no one can stop are still running, please and thank you.