Hank: direct air capture will get cheaper and eventually become important for removing existing CO2 (2024)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: predicted (2024-02-09) · owner: Hank
In February 2024 Hank predicted that the cost of direct air capture would eventually fall and that, with few other ways to remove existing carbon dioxide, it would become important, though not for a while.
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| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-09 | predicted | Hank predicts direct air capture's cost will eventually fall and, with few other ways to remove existing CO2, it will become important, though not for a while. | My Favorite Climate Graph 00:04:44 |
What is said about it
3 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2024-02-09 · My Favorite Climate Graph — Hank says physics makes direct air capture hard and expensive: CO2 concentration in the air is low and its molecules are very stable and nonpolar, so it is hard to get them to stick to stuff. — 00:04:15
- 2024-02-09 · My Favorite Climate Graph — Hank says that is why researchers work on it now, and why the US government and private companies are working with universities on the details. — 00:04:58
- 2024-02-09 · My Favorite Climate Graph — Hank sometimes feels nothing gets done unless he personally focuses on it, but people everywhere are working on problems we don't need to watch, though it's nice to look sometimes. — 00:05:09