A physicist runs the math on direct air capture and warns: This tech won't save us from climate catastrophe.
  • Cavemanfreak@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    It’s way less than that. 2.39x10^20 is around 4% of 5.8x10^21. Not even close to “almost as much”. Looks like the authors don’t know their powers of 10. So if we dedicate 5% of the total energy for one year it could theoretically be done.