Direct air capture: An expensive, dangerous distraction from real climate solutions
by Kurt Zenz House, Josh Goldman, Charles F. Harvey on thebulletin, December 15, 2023
„All year, the zeitgeist has been building toward technologies that separate carbon dioxide from air, referred to as direct air capture (DAC). In September, the United States Department of Energy awarded Occidental Petroleum a $600 million grant to build a DAC machine. As scientists and entrepreneurs who’ve dedicated our careers to help solve global warming, you might expect us to be happy. We are not.“