• barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      Nothing at scale (because IIRC it isn’t actually possible), but there are a few I’ve heard of over the years. Here’s a recent thing out of Cambridge that’s very proof of concept, obviously, but still focused on the idea of using captured carbon rather than actually sequestering it. On a similar note, the oil and gas sector wants to pump captured carbon dioxide into oil reservoirs to store it and entirely coincidentally get more oil out.

      They’re all for-profit businesses, so the focus is on making money first, and “maybe actually do something to mitigate the damage caused by climate change” is a distant second.