{"id":33148,"date":"2025-01-06T15:58:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T14:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=33148"},"modified":"2025-01-06T15:59:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T14:59:24","slug":"direct-carbon-capture-and-storage-in-the-air-is-a-waste-of-time-and-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2025\/01\/06\/direct-carbon-capture-and-storage-in-the-air-is-a-waste-of-time-and-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct carbon capture and storage in the air. Waste of time and energy"},"content":{"rendered":"

This document<\/span><\/a> discusses direct carbon capture and storage (DAC) technology and argues that it is a waste of time and energy. DAC is an extremely expensive technology<\/strong>, which requires a large amount of energy to capture a relatively small amount of CO2 from the atmosphere. The cost of capturing a tonne of CO2 using DAC is around \u20ac1,000, while the price of CO2 on the EU emissions market is around \u20ac70 per tonne.<\/p>\n

The document argues that there are much cheaper and more effective ways to reduce CO2 emissions<\/strong>, such as investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency and electromobility. For example, a single wind turbine can prevent the same amount of CO2 emissions as the DAC Mammoth facility, which is currently the largest in the world.<\/p>\n

Another problem is limited availability of suitable storage facilities for captured CO2<\/strong>Even if suitable storage sites are found, there is a risk of CO2 leakage, which would nullify efforts to reduce emissions.<\/p>\n

The document further criticizes DAC funding by the oil and gas industry and billionaires<\/strong>who are trying to present DAC as a miracle technology that will solve the climate crisis without the need for radical changes.<\/p>\n

In conclusion, the document states that DAC is an ineffective and costly way to combat climate change<\/strong>Instead of investing in DAC, resources should be redirected to proven and cheaper solutions such as renewable energy sources and energy efficiency. Spring<\/strong><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This paper discusses the technology of direct carbon capture and storage (DAC) and argues that it is a waste of time and energy. DAC is an extremely expensive technology that requires a large amount of energy to capture a relatively small amount of CO2 from the atmosphere. The cost of capturing a tonne of CO2 using DAC is around \u20ac1,000, while the price of CO2 [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-znizovanie_co2_cdr_ccs_ccu_dac"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}