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this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2024
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Trees do it.
Plant more trees.
I'm all for more trees but they eventually decompose and release their captured CO2. Combine it with BECCS and it could actually net in reduced CO2 over the course of centuries. We'll need a myriad of solutions, unfortunately a lot of capture methods are greenwashing bs.
It takes decades to get significant co2 out of the air with trees.
Algae is what we want. Then toss it down a coal mine.
So we better get it going, then.
I hear it's better if we start 20 years ago.
2004?